The Old and the Envious
"Shakespeare told it 400 years ago, 'Crabbed age and youth cannot live together'."(Needham) It is obvious that even from Shakespeare's time that the elderly and the young have been at odds. What is the one reason that they cannot get along? One major reason is that the elderly have grown to hate the young. This feeling, at times, is mutual but more evident in the elderly. Because the elderly have passed the time in which they were young, they tend to envy the younger population. This is due to the fact that the youth still have their lives to live. The major causes for the envy that the old harbor for the young deal with the beauty that is still evident in the young but no longer in them; the fact that the youth have access to more advanced technology; and simply because the elderly refuse to understand the youth. For all these reasons and more, there is no love lost between the young and the elderly.Seeing beauty in the face of others and envying them for that beauty is something that is a regular occurrence of life. It occurs between young people as well as between older people. But, there is no envy like the envy that the old have for the young. Because physical appearance is something that cannot be hidden, it is wh
The resentment of the elderly toward the youth has always existed. This is mostly due to the great generation gap between the two groups of people. The elderly envy them for their youth and beauty, because they can't look as young as them any more. They try various techniques but they know on the inside that they are old. Technology also tends to be a factor that affects this growing jealousy. This advancement forces the elderly to become more envious towards young people because they now have it easier according to the elderly. This increases the lack of understanding between the elderly and the young and even causes more misunderstanding between them. At this point it seems the young have everything the old want. This causes the elderly to search for one thing that can give them the upper hand, which will allow them to be better than the young. It is this need for superiority that causes the envious nature of the relationship between the young and the old to spiral out of control. It has once been said "Envy is pain at the sight of superior excellence in another, and is always a mark of blinding selfishness..." and it is this blinding selfishness that is what makes the end of the lives of the elderly so bitter and unpleasant. In today's generation, the youth has access to more advanced technologies than the elderly did in their days. This is another reason that makes them envious towards the youth. With science advancing at a rapid rate, technological advancements dealing with the ability to communicate with the world are swiftly coming onto the market. For example, during the time of the baby boomers the only availability for the young at that time was the library and books, whereas today the Internet provides the young with constant access to information. This information through Internet can be found within minutes whereas it took the elderly, in their days, hours to go through books, page-by-page, to gain the same amount of information. It is a slap in the face to know that an hou
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Approximate Word count = 1358
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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