No offense to old people, its just an observation I’ve made.
Ive had the opposite experience. Ive found old people to be so unbelievably kind and genuine. Ive met one or two old cunts but thats to be expected.
it’s because they are old, and nothing ever got better. everything only got worse. literally everything
this will happen to you too
I’ve been noticing already. The older I am the angrier I get.
Mostly because as years pass I notice how most people is just bad people. Losing faith in humanity makes me angry at humanity.
Probably confirmation bias. Content, happy people are generally not screaming out at the world about their happiness.
Young people aren’t angry? They look quite upset to (old) me, and rightfully so. I probably would be a lot more than they are, to be honest.
One remark, maybe:
The few old people around you does not represent a valid statistical sample for ‘old people’ in general. You need a lot more data.
No offense intended, maybe it’s like that because you’re living in a family that is keen on hating and insulting one another? The only thing I would feel ok to conclude from that is they may very well be dickheads, every single one of them, but that doesn’t mean all people their age are the same. Don’t generalize ;)
To help you realize how… too fast such conclusions can be made, and no doubt how wrong they can be, consider this simple observation one may want to make reading your question:
The only constant in your interactions with older people is yourself. How come you may ask? Well, they’re all different (old) people that don’t share the exact same age, sex and personality (taste and preferences), maybe they don’t even live all at the same place. Meanwhile, you’re the exact same person. You do not change and you’re not different, they are. So, if every single one of those different and older persons you meet is hating on you shouldn’t I conclude that you’re the most likely cause of their hate?
See how easy it is to come to some nutty conclusion out of mere ‘observations’?
To be perfectly clear, I 'm not saying it’s you that’s causing anything. Far from it. First, for the simple reason that I never met you and then because you probably are not the cause of anything here. Like I said, there is not enough data to conclude anything. Still it’s so easy to conclude that it’s your fault and from there that if it’s your fault it’s all younger people’s fault—it’s not ;)
To share my own personal experience, as a child (I was young, once) I knew very early on my mother hated my guts. I started by wondering why adults where such assholes towards kids up until I realized that was not ‘all adults’ nor ‘all mothers’, it was her. That unique person she was for reasons that were her own that certainly would not allow me or anyone else to generalize her behavior to all mothers.
All of that to say there could be a lot of reasons and factors unrelated to their age.
every grandparent or elderly relative always have insulting remarks about me
I have been young myself (promise I really was, and one day you will be old too) and my grand-parents never insulted me. Not once. And as an older person myself nowadays I tend to not insult… not too often ;)
The old people at my UU church seem pretty chill
It’s just the whiskey talking.
From what I’ve seen, especially since COVID, is that society has changed beyond their understanding and now a lot of things are strange and scary. Worse, a lot of the skills they should have learned to understand the present day weren’t learned for various reasons, so getting over the hump of understanding is now a lot higher than previous.
Anger is a common reaction to fear and confusion.
Being really old probably sucks. I’d be mad too.
That doesn’t justify being an entitled dickhead.
Some assholes hang around with other assholes because 1) it validates them, 2) it gives them someone to argue with,3) they have no one else because normal people cut them out of their lives
I mean… Have you looked around the world lately? What isn’t rage inducing? Now couple that with your body falling apart and feeling the pain of aging more and more the closer you get to your final days.
How many old people have you known?
Older folks can seem more angry than other demographics for a few reasons: pain from physical deterioration, disappointment in their life’s circumstances with fewer/no realistic opportunities to better them, people very close to them dying, worldviews that conflict with the realities of modern life, etc. It depends on the individual but pain and the whole “less unshitty time left on this earth” thing are more commonly experienced in seniors than other demographics.
But this is talking about this in general - to give you a useful answer, I’d want to know more about your interactions with elderly folks. Only one I saw in this thread was old folks telling you to kill yourself - it’s rare someone cold leads with that unless it’s online (the answer is always living, happily, in spite). What happens before that?
Old people have been around enough to see through your bullshit.
“Everybody hates you when you’re 23” said some wise punk rocker.
There are a lot of idiots in the world, and some of them are old.
Old people may seem angry because they’ve seen a lot of crap and it just keeps coming in new, unexpected forms.
I met some of the nicest old people at the protest yesterday. Maybe you just have a bad sample set in your area
They were some of the most inspiring people I met yesterday. It’s great seeing people my parents age that are engaged and want to make the world a better place for their kids and grandkids.
