It's controversial whether older people can enjoy life as well as younger people. This thoughts are arisen largely due to the prejudice that older people get limitation to do so. This is idea is based on misbelief that most older people get weaker and have financial difficulties for leisure activities. However, that is just a misguided conception about 'olders'. No wonder older people's life is joyful due to the fact that they have much more free time than the young and experiences.
To begin with, the underlying idea of older's enjoyable life can be supported since they are able to adjust their time freely. Most older people already retired from work that it provided full of free time, giving them opportunity to spend the time by doing what they have desired. In case of the young,however, they spend most of their time preparing and studying for the entrance examination for universities and companies to attend. It's not only a stressful period of life but also has too many restrictions for them to plan extra activities. For example, my english teacher who retired from his school spends most of his time traveling all around the nation. He has longed to have long travle with comfort since he was young, but couldn't make it till he retired. Because like other young people, he had to struggle to build up careers and trusts in society so as to accomplish successful life. No doubt that he had no time to plan to have long and stress-free vacation. This case indicates that older people's life can be more enjoyable than that of younger people.
Besides, since older people went through almost every happening in their life time, these abundant experience made older people mature enough to judge things accurately and gave them lessons. So their experiences far outweigh those of younger people, ensuring that they can live their life more wisely and productively. According to my experience, old seniors have implausible patience in issues while the younger people are usually dying to get things done as quick as they could. This can be appear in daily lives such as in case of surfing the internet. The young, who are already accustomed not to wait things enough time tend to click and refresh internet windows so often that causes computer to stuck. On the contrary, the older people are likely to wait for a while for internet to buffer, knowing it would soon work. In this respect, older people take care of issues wisely in order to make it less stressful and positively.
To summerize, the argument that older people are not capable of enjoying life as well as younger people doesnt' make sense at all. Older people have plenty of time to manage freely and spend for their leisure and hobby. Not only that, their ample life experience dedicate for them to live better quality of life. For these reasons, it can be evident that older people's life can be pleasible as that of the young |