Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Related Keywords: Youth Living Getting Older Emotional Wrong Sorrow Long
Related Authors: W. E. B. Du Bois Jane Addams Morrie Schwartz Herbert Spencer Michel Foucault Max Weber Emile Durkheim