The Tao of the Belligerent, Eternally Young, Old Geezers
Apr 7, 2020 16:52:25 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Apr 7, 2020 16:52:25 GMT -5
The Tao of the Belligerent, Eternally Young, Old Geezers
Everyone likes to be young, but there is a point in life when getting old is perceived as a very serious threat and staying young becomes a fanatical thing. Generally speaking, this feeling that youth is seriously threatened grows stronger as humans leave the 20's and the early 40's start to come around. Then a look of deep concern starts to predominate in a once carefree countenance as they begin to reluctantly and deeply contemplate the drastic physical transformation that menacingly looms ahead.
This worry grows even stronger when the person hits the forties. However, once a person enters the fifties, it seems to turn into a hysteria-fueled by fear that creates delusions and motivates certain antisocial behavioral anomalies characteristic of that age and the ages beyond. What are these behavioral anomalies? Here are a few listed below based on my personal observations.
1. Looking into the mirror and only seeing the young areas of the face but not the aging ones. Sure, the eye-bags bulge but the forehead is smooth. Sure, the chin is wrinkled, but the cheeks look fine. Sure the hair is thinning, but it doesn’t look completely black.
Or else these aged areas are unconsciously avoided so that the person doesn’t really see them and isn’t being forced to accept them. As the saying goes, “Out of sight out of mind.”
2. This leads them to the firm conclusion that they do not look their age but much younger.
Those decrepit old geezers they see on TV who are their same age? No problem, They are unceremoniously dismissed as suffering from some degenerative aging disease if they are the person’s same age because they sure as hell do not look like that. The problem is that in most cases, they actually do look like that. Yet they wonder why the hell is everyone else aging while they are standing still? Must be genetics! That’s it ! Genetics! Why, not everyone is blessed with his special genetic! So the old geezer feels especially blessed.
3. Thinking that others only see the young parts of their faces as they themselves do when they look into the mirror.
This leads the old geezers to unrealistic expectations. They can’t understand why younger people of the opposite sex don’t react the way they once did. Why don’t they ever even gaze their way any longer? They are shocked when such people expect appropriate aged behavior from them because in their mind’s, they are still in their late thirties or early forties. Some extremely delusional geezers might even be identifying with their teen years and can’t understand why teens treat them as old geezers. .
4. Referring to older men pops, papa grandpa in public in order to boost their own ego.
Yep! They see an older fellow who is actually depressed due to aging and peacefully minding his own business and they dump that garbage on him. Of course, they see absolutely no reason why that older geezer should object being called pops, or papa, or gramps, by a younger person.
Do not understand why their words are not appreciated and they become deeply offended when they are treated as if they have been insulting or disrespectful. It’s only later, when they reach that stage and that same cruel garbage is done to them by younger old geezers, that they realize their error.
5. Holding doors and offering help to people believed to be older than they are when they themselves look as old or far older than the people they are offering to help. That old geezer behavior is particularly annoying. What is this decrepid old man holding the door for me and looking at me as if I am a cripple? Give him a slight push and he would topple over! Yet there he is with his antics feeling younger and trying to make another old geezer feel helpless and old.
6. Claiming to be fifty even though they are well into their sixties and look it.
Some even look past the seventy and into their early eighties. This anomaly is based on the delusion that they actually think that they look fifty. I once worked with this old geezer who actually looked 85 and was saying he was fifty two.
I was thirty-eight at the time and just couldn’t imagine myself looking that way in a mere 14 years. Neither did I see other senor citizens of that age looking that way. So I was forced to conclude he was lying. But ask around and you will ses that 52 is a very popular age which younger old geezers hold onto for dear life as long as possible.
7. Looking for fist-fights with those who are older or considered older and calling them old in the process.
Now of all the characteristics typical of old age, this is the most annoying. The old geezer wants to throw hands. With whom? Yet, you guessed it-with old geezers who are or else he imagines that are his seniors. The old geezer will be on the lookout for such opportunities with a keen old eagle eye. Jumping into an argument in favor of the younger person and furiously hurling insults and hoping to show that he is not an old geezer by inflicting bodily harm on the other older geezer.
Once they have interfered and provoked an altercation in that manner, they walk away feeling rejuvenated for having proven that they are still young. During the antics he will call the older geezer old even though he is old himself. A real display of desperation instigated by the fact the he will soon be in a casket eight feet under.
Well, I am sure there are more but these are the ones I have noticed and the ones which most annoy me.