Many people agree that just 'aging' doesn't mean 'being older''. In past, though I totally agreed that an increase of years people have lived isn't equal to being 'old', I couldn't define it by myself. However, now, I definitely know how old people are different from young people.
My friends in KMLA are very sensitive to what is 'wrong'. While many students in our age merely follow what the school and society says, we know how to make our voice to criticize an unreasonable thing. In a process of finding out problems and criticizing them, we improve by learning ways to convey our opinions and standards to decide what is wrong and right. I think this is what 'young people' do. They mentally develop by recognizing problems and making their own voices to fix them. They are never satisfied with what they have but try to make their situation 'best' by fixing them by their own power.
However, old people do not even try to 'recognize' the problems. They just accept everything and deny a change around them since it would just make them hard to adapt to a new condition. Even though they feel discomfort about it, they do not try to criticize but just adapt to it. They always think 'there is always a reason for something to happen' every time they face problems and just compensate with themselves. They don't try to make their surroundings or conditions 'best' by fixing it but merely compensate with themselves in all conditions.
This is what I realized as I live in KMLA full of students who can confidently make their own voice to people who are in power to point out the problems and fix them Though I sometimes feel disgust toward some students merely making a big voice in order to make the condition better that would only benefit them in selfishness, I believe they would have an accurate standard of evaluating what is right or wrong sometimes as they have courage to confidently speak up to public about what they feel 'unreasonable'. We cannot refute a fact that we have not lived long enough to say 'we are old'; but we, who never compensate with ourselves in any condition, can be said to be 'old' in my criteria.
Good to see these thoughtful posts. I feel this one is "deep" and I'm not entirely sure what your message is, and I think it's always best to protect yourself from generalizations, especially in paragraph 3. Some old people are certain ways while others are not, just as it is with "millennials" and "Gen Z." We can identify certain characteristics and differing understandings of the world, but to label them as "this way" or "that way" isn't helpful. Are you familiar with the "okay boomer" meme? Lol. It's pretty funny. I think KMLA is a place where frustration with generation gaps and tradition is inevitable. Good post.
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