The age gap between young and old has drastically reduced in the past 10-15 years. The oldies are getting younger by the day and probably the young are getting grey hair faster by the day.
Gone are the days when 60 years was the end of working life probably with a send off from office with a bouquet of flowers and a box of sweets.
In today’s world, working till 68-70 or as health permits is becoming a common norm, in fact, my old man worked till 75 and was climbing 14 floors to supervise as he was the project head that too after his first career of 40 years in the Armed Forces.
The larger point of debate is, is there an expiry date or a redundancy age for us? In my opinion it is both yes and no.
As we grow older our Physical health may not keep up with our mental agility or vice versa, but then, the third aspect which in my opinion is most critical is, do we become mentally dead just because of age or do we die because of physical health?
Some people give up on life easily just because they think they have got old, whereas some people do not give up on their youth just because they have got old.
The term Ageing is becoming more of an oxymoron, many young people in their 50 have started saying we are old whereas people in their 80s still feel they are young.
Ageing and agedcare is an interesting space to watch out for, eventually we all will technically get older as per the physical body but the, when our mental Ageing starts is a phase which is purely individual and unforeseen
Pankaj Mehrotra
Catch them Young or Catch them Old
