Old Age is a Disease ?

Is it Catching ?

Antiques and Pristinity ?

I notice that young people tend to avoid old people, especially older strangers. They also have a complete aversion to using "old" stuff. They'd rather have a brand new cheap set of speakers that sound terrible than a venerable pair of top quality speakers in mint condition.

I wonder if it is a case of being concerned about "catching" the "getting old" disease.

The fact that we all have it from birth, and that the only short circut to avoiding it involves dying early by accident or some fast acting disease, is undeniable. Yet many people play "head in the sand" with the notion. As a youngster under 40, this is very easy to do. The event is far off in the future.

Once you're over 60, the evidence begins to pile up. The more fatal car wrecks you pass, the more near misses you have, the more friends and famous people depart the planet, the more obvious it becomes that you will have a difficult, nay, impossible time dodging the final bullet.

Still, young people avoid the old.

As a side line, antique objects are valued not so much because they are so old, but rather only if they've managed to make it to the present day in nearly the same condition (complete with original box) that they started off in as new products. Perhaps again wishful thinking: "If I own this very old thing that is still nearly young, perhaps I too will have some of it's magic rub off on me, and I will live forever too."

Good Luck !