Superdeterminist
Enlightened
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1,877
Is any else completely repulsed by the phenomenon of ageing? I view it as such a horrific evil in the world, in the same league as cancer or AIDS. I can't even look at elderly people directly, such is my aversion to it.
To clarify, I do not hold any ill will whatsoever towards old people, rather I view them as mere victims of this horrible disease, and respect them fully. But I can't even face them because it terrifies me, looking at them and seeing in their wrinkles, their liverspots, their worn joints etc...what kind of humiliating degradations await me. There is no way I could live as an elderly person, I can see that even now in my 20s. Yet, I have spoken to other people about this and many of them accept ageing or even embrace it, which totally bewilders me. Such a positive perspective on ageing is incomprehensible to me, and ageing is one of the major reasons I want to die -to escape having to face it
What are your thoughts on growing old?
To clarify, I do not hold any ill will whatsoever towards old people, rather I view them as mere victims of this horrible disease, and respect them fully. But I can't even face them because it terrifies me, looking at them and seeing in their wrinkles, their liverspots, their worn joints etc...what kind of humiliating degradations await me. There is no way I could live as an elderly person, I can see that even now in my 20s. Yet, I have spoken to other people about this and many of them accept ageing or even embrace it, which totally bewilders me. Such a positive perspective on ageing is incomprehensible to me, and ageing is one of the major reasons I want to die -to escape having to face it
What are your thoughts on growing old?