is a bugaboo to many. Who is old? A thousand answers are deduced to say: not me. The truth is, age is strictly relative. Anybody older than you is “old.” Anybody younger than you is “young.” Somebody in his young twenties sees teenagers as hopelessly young, and people in their late thirties as really old (not to mention the troglodytes in their sixties). Age, many old people say, is in your mind, not your body. You know, the “young at heart.” Or, “you’re only as old as you feel.” Or, “60 is the new 40.” Or, “she (age 70) doesn’t look a day over 50.” As if 25-year-olds know what all the 50-year-olds look like, as if 75-year-olds can remember the difference. Rabbi Israel Kagan […]
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