Old Age Agony

The average age of a human being is around 75 years. The period of transition of a human being from a child to an adolescent and then to an adult witnesses a lot of psychological and physical transition. An adult has a lot of energy and can do a lot of hard work. A grown up human being can work all day without rest. A person is the toughest between 22 and 40 years of age, both physically and psychologically. This phase is called youth. During these long years, a person gets habituated to toughness and the hard ways of survival.

After 40 years of age, human beings start getting older, both physically and psychologically. In fact when they start getting physically weaker, they try to keep up with their fitness psychologically. However, gradually when they reach middle age or say the age of about 60, they force themselves to perform in the same way as they used to in their youth. It is human psychology that does not allow them to accept that they are getting older and becoming less capable of doing things the same way.

However, the diminishing reflex sense of a person gets them into depression because their failure to be as active as in their youth. This mental situation is very agonizing. They start feeling avoided and secluded. They start feeling that they could have done much more in their lives but they did not or could not. They start fearing their eventual end. Health problems start irritating them and gradually they become arrogant and rigid. Most of the older people are unwilling to go through medication because of their thought that they are still fit. This further becomes a problem for their caretakers. But this is not their fault.

We need to remember and realize that every one of us is going to grow old some day and we will go through the same psychological agony. Hence we should not get irritated with the rigid and arrogant behavior of our old age parents and other elders in the family.

Linus Orakles
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