Why stay healthy?
I keep hearing about all these neat studies/trend/articles on staying healthy. Apparently certain activities and measures add a few years to your life.
Things like flossing your teeth once a day will add 2 years to you life. The right shoes adds 3 years. Stuff like that.
I don’t mind trying to stay in shape and eating right but these are just going to new lengths of absurd.
First off, who wants to tack on years at the end of your life? If I could squeeze an extra year or two between 20 & 25 that would have been great. Really, though. When you’re in the upper 80’s what does it really matter? No? 90’s?
More importantly (and seriously) this country (meaning the USA) is heavily favored towards the young. If you’re not in your 20s, you’re not hip nor important enough to be bothered with (unless youre some sort of celebrity).
The older you are, the more you get overlooked. Its nice to think that in some countries old people are revered. But not here.. where it seems your purpose is to be mugged by some 28 year old so he can buy some new sneakers.
I agree and I disagree about being young. If you’re into clubbing or are trying to be perpetually “with it” for some reason, then yes you may not get taken seriously if you’re wearing baggy clothing at 50. But then again baggy pants are really only hip with fifteen-year-olds anymore, and even then, only with the Soulja Boy fans.
What (slightly) older people give up in youth, they gain in respect. There seems to be this idea that young people are less loyal to employers in the job field. This is countered by recent studies that say that people under thirty are actually more> loyal to employers that treat them as valuable employees (as opposed to people over thirty, and people over forty were shown to have almost no employer loyalty even though they are treated as the most dependable age group in the workforce today).
So yeah, I’d totally give up some hipness (ha!) in exchange for having had more respect at jobs.