▶ Your Answer : Some people may think that the old have more enjoyable lives than the young. However, I think that young people have more pleasurable lives than the elderly. This is because young people are healthy enough to enjoy what they want contrast to the elderly and have less burden to consider.
To begin with, young people are much vigorous and have healthy physical ability to enjoy diverse activities. They can do a variety of activities they want to experience such as traveling, hiking, sky diving, and so on. However, compared to the young, the elderly are not able to fully enjoy these activities. Since many of the elderly are lack of physical ability to endure the activities and can be much vulnerable when being injured, they can not fully enjoy their lives compared to the young. For example, when my grandmother recently told me that she became old and had a backache, so she thought she would not travel as much as when she was young. Additionally, she also told that her friends surrounding her had also experienced similar affairs that they could not enjoy what they want because of their physicial limitation.
On top of that, young people have less responsibility to assume compared to the elderly. Compared to the old who must consider many factors when they spend their money, young people do not have much burden to take care of. The old have to pay for much insurance fee, rents or maintanence of house, and taxes without much property and income. According to the reasearch of the Administrative Department of the United States, more than 75% of the elderly are not stable in their income and do not have enough property to live enjoying their leisures. However, the young have less burden and duty to take care of themselves, so they can put their invest on what they want to do such as traveling abroad, or participating in expensive extreme sports. For example, on a television program, they introduced some young people who traveled abroad just without considering anything and enjoyed their lives fully. Since they were young and no kids, and no houses and so on, they did not need to consider duties or future much. They had spent their money on what they want to do, and enjoyed their lives as they can.
To sum up, young people are healthier than the elderly to enjoy their lives and less factors to consider when they spend their money on what they want to do. For these reasons, I agree with the statement that young people have more enjoy able lives than the elderly. |