Why can’t people who’ve reached a ripe old age be more grateful?

[Anonymous]

Don't worry, karma will come around abd bite OP in the butt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Old age is ugly" is what my great-grandmother used to say in her native tongue.

She lived to be a ripe old age. Much older than 75.

Maybe I will too, if I'm lucky.

And you won’t complain in that case, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't worry, karma will come around abd bite OP in the butt

Why does a sense of fairness warrant karma?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of it is dementia. They start to regress to a child-like state.

It could be you someday.

OP, but I promise to be dead before that happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are sick, in pain, all their friends are dead, and their younger family members are unfeeling.

This! DCUM posters are shockingly nasty when it comes to their aging parents. 😱

It floors me every time.

I could say the same thing in regards to DCUM comments about failure-to-launch young adults.

[Anonymous]

You're in pain and pain is not treated in older people. Your friends are pinging off, one by one. You go shopping and will be ignored, so you become invisible.

I was in a grocery store where the woman behind me complained that there were too many old people in the store. So going out in public offends younger people.

At my doctor's office another woman complained that "92% of the patients were old" so was upset that he had too many old patients. Why, because he's patient and kind and treats them with respect unlike so many doctors.

Put up with that every single day of your life and see how today's snowflakes will handle not being attractive, having no friends, being invisible and being in pain. I'm sure they will "be grateful."

[Anonymous]

OP, you're an a$$hole.

[Anonymous]

Geez, op-their brains are also 80 years old and aren’t working like they use too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geez, op-their brains are also 80 years old and aren’t working like they use too.

+1
They seem to get a bit self-centered as they age so of course they're not thinking about others and you can't really expect them to, like a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of it is dementia. They start to regress to a child-like state.

This. With cognitive decline, people lose their filters and emotional regulation. What might have been a slight tendency towards negativity becomes constant complaining and griping.

Guess what. It’s going to happen to you too.

Different poster. No, it tends to be difficult people become more difficult except do it the rare major personality shift in some with dementia. Often those with self absorbed difficult elders are more pleasant as they age and they are more open to the right setting because they are determined to break negative patterns and they care about their adult children.

[Anonymous]

Maybe because of the rampant ageism in our society, including your OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, op-their brains are also 80 years old and aren’t working like they use too.

+1
They seem to get a bit self-centered as they age so of course they're not thinking about others and you can't really expect them to, like a child.

There are a lot of reasons to give grace to the elderly, but they are not children, and shouldn’t be treated as such. I know my 82 year old mom would bristle at anyone thinking of her as “like a child.” She lives in the city with a large community of senior citizens who continue to be active and engaged with life.

[Anonymous]

You seen extremely crabby and unappreciative of the good things and people in your life and yet you haven't committed suicide. Why would you expect someone else to do that just because they're older than you? 🙄 The lack of self awareness here is breathtaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, op-their brains are also 80 years old and aren’t working like they use too.

+1
They seem to get a bit self-centered as they age so of course they're not thinking about others and you can't really expect them to, like a child.

There are a lot of reasons to give grace to the elderly, but they are not children, and shouldn’t be treated as such. I know my 82 year old mom would bristle at anyone thinking of her as “like a child.” She lives in the city with a large community of senior citizens who continue to be active and engaged with life.

+1

I only treat someone like a child if they are a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You seen extremely crabby and unappreciative of the good things and people in your life and yet you haven't committed suicide. Why would you expect someone else to do that just because they're older than you? 🙄 The lack of self awareness here is breathtaking.

That's because my maternal grandmother is still alive and I feel it's wrong for a grandparent to outlive their grandchild. After she dies, I'll be ready to die too. I don't mind if my father outlives me, and I actually want my mother to outlive me, as I feel she's the perfect person to write my obituary and could give a really romantic and emotional speech about me at me funeral/memorial.