Why do people from older generations look much older than their equivalent age peers today?
This topic fascinates me and I wonder how much research, if any, has been done in this area. You don’t have to go back to the 1930’s to see the difference. Any high school yearbook you look at from early twentieth century to about 1986 or ’87 you will notice that the seniors almost all look like mature adults - probably what 30 looks like now. The change seemed to begin and was really noticeable in my class (1988). High school seniors today look like kids, whereas those before 1988 looked like adults. It’s not the clothes, the hair, or trying to look older. You see the differences in the faces alone. I was just looking at some high school yearbook photos online from 1978–79 and it’s very clear that the teenagers of that generation look considerably older than the teens today. I believe it has something to do with nutrition - are we really healthier today than back then? With all the diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart disease now, you would think that wasn’t the case. There is so much processed food today - maybe even more so than before. I can’t say for sure, which is why research needs to be done. What could cause the aging process in an entire generation to slow down? What happened in the food supply or environment around 1970 (birth year of the class of ‘88)?
Older generations, what advice or wisdom would you like to share with us millennials?
Avoid debt as much as is practical. Eat healthy food, as often as possible. You KNOW what's healthy and what's not. Exercise as much as you can. If you have a health problem persist, GO TO THE DOCTOR. It's not wise to go without health insurance for long, you never know what may happen. Treat people the way you'd want your mother to be treated.That's it. End of my sanctimonious “advice.”Other than that, here's my most salient piece of advice. YOUR ELDERS WERE NO SMARTER, HARDER WORKING, NOR MORE VIRTUOUS THAN YOU when they were your age.Believe me when I tell you as a history professor, humans have certain patterns to their behavior and while there are all kinds of caveats and extraneous factors, they behave awfully similar across the years.Prior generations for all their supposed wisdom got involved in slavery, genocidal conflicts against indigenous people, two catastrophic world wars, a cold war, and the current mess we're in (not coincidentally related to the Cold War.). They also smoked like chimneys & used leaded gasoline & paint…they didn't believe what doctors and scientists said was wrong about that for DECADES.People like me try to politely point those things out but another behavior repitition is that not many people listen.When I was 18–25 I didn't know shit, and it was okay. My parents didn't… they had made a ton of mistakes before they had me. My grandparents didn't know shit when they were 21 either. You know, it's life and a learning process, and I'm not going to arrogantly tell young people what to do, other than those common sense things I mentioned like eating right.
Why do older people treat teens like kids?
Well that kind of depends on what "teen" age you are talking about a 13 or a 19. Because there is a big difference there. Tell me, do you work? Do you pay for your own housing, electricity, water, gas, food? Do you experience in raising children? What is the most important thing to you right now? Compare the answer you give to that question to the answer a 40/50 year old would give to that question. You want to be treated with respect, then earn it. I love my brother very much. And he has come to live with me in the past. During this time, I remembered what being a teenager was like for me. It was a lot different than the way he is living now! I worked through school, had to pay for my own car, gas, insurance. Was married by the time I was seventeen and probably more mature than the average seventeen year old at that time. If you can sit there and tell me you have earned the respect that the older people have worked/slaved/shed blood sweat and tears to get for many, many, years (and still don't get it) then maybe I am wrong. But I doubt it. Because even today, older people who have lived their lives, raised their children, worked their fingers to the bones and are now stooped over with old age and can barely see to drive are shown nothing but disrespect, hatred, impatience and annoyance. So I guess basically what I am trying to say, is, join the club. They feel the same way.
Why do older people criticize the way young people are today, when they're the ones who raised us?
Because older people are trying to get younger people to recognize their problems and do something about them instead of just blaming older generations for not raising them right or loving them enough or giving them more stuff when growing up. Scapegoating your problems might give some solace by making you think you aren't really responsible for what you don't like about your life, but it doesn't actually get rid of your problems. Edit: Everyone will try to "one up you." It's not just older generations who do that. That's part of living in modern society.
What do you think?.....people at least older than 30 answer.....?
Do you think our age is harder for us teens to live in nowadays, I mean with all that's going on in this world?[i.e. fornication, peer pressure, drugs ect..] Would you say we have it harder, or your grandparents had it harder?
Why do old people always tell stories?
They feel that they have nothing better to do.
Why do older people HATE blue eyeshadow?
I have noticed that even though blue eyeshadow is back in style that a LOT of older people HATE blue eyeshadow. My mother and her friends hate when i wear blue eyeshadow bc they say its too loud a color. I have dark skin(rhianna beyonce) and i like the way blues look on me bc they make my eyes stand out. I have asked my friends and they say their parents seem to really hate blue eyeshadow as well. Ive tried to tell my mom blue eyeshadow has changed in the past few years but she refuses to believe me. Is there a reason why older people hate blue eyeshadow?