The Causes and Effects of Fear of Old Age

It is not a secret that everyone wants live longer than others but there is no person who agreed to grow and get older. Earlier, when life was simpler, those who reached twilight years, can really relax and feel themselves more secure by society. However, today most old people cannot be sure that their ripe old age will find a sufficient attention and respect by younger adults. This factor can be main reason of unwillingness to get older. Secondly, most people, especially women, see laugh lines, sagging skin into mirror and fear more oncoming decrepitude. As a consequence, they sense all negative aspects of getting older. Cosmetic firms spend million and million dollars on advertising of anti-aging products. So, market receives its own profits by fear of old year. Also, such type of unconstructive thoughts and beliefs can be caused by fear of mental and physical decline. There is a bad opportunity to get Alzheimer’s disease or senile marasmus, when you reached the senior age. The awareness that in one day our brain will forget names of all friends and relatives is very scary for everyone. Moreover, wonderful and beautiful memories that accumulated us to live further will disappear, this all can be reason for fear of old year occurring.

For each adult possible effects can be different. Nevertheless, there are some “standard” consequences of old year fear. For instance, dread of be lonely while you getting older. Old age tends to bring solitude in modern world. It can bring hazardous consequence to see how your close people dying and belief that time for “movement” to other world will come anyway. Another effect can be that people who have always been very socially oriented and suddenly woke up one day in old age to discover their diminished social usefulness, because every employer realizes an effectiveness of young people in mental and physical type of work. Thinking every moment about future role in the society can lead to be more attractive for different bad illnesses and mental problems. As a result, old people begin to lose ambition and enthusiasm, begin losing friends to death or distance or neglect, living in the world of their old memories and the concrete world of the present appears foreign to them.

To conclude, everyone must understand we all in this world are growing older. No matter what you think, say or do, it’s going to happen, whether you like it or not. So instead of scaring and paralyzing ourselves with unreasonably fear, you might as well eliminate awareness of the physical deterioration. Rather than fight it, it is necessary to accept that it’s going to happen.