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Estimating Age

Friday Oct 31 2008

By Shae Hadden | Bio

Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love contains an interesting perspective on aging. For the Balinese, it is more important what day of the week you were born on than the year you were born in. One of the characters, a Balinese medicine man named Ketut, knows only that his birthday is on Thursday and that he was an adult in WWII. His estimates of his age vary daily, depending on how tired or upbeat he's feeling.

Imagine what life might be like if you didn't know what year you were born in....

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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age

Act Your Age!

Tuesday May 01 2007

By Shae Hadden
Bio

I’m pondering this throw-away comment, something I’ve heard countless times before and never really thought about. What do we really mean when we say someone isn’t ‘acting their age’? In effect, we’re judging whether their actions are ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’—as compared to the majority of people of that same chronological age in our society. But our assessments are neither true, nor false. They are simply our perspective, our evaluation, of what we perceive.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age assessment behavior judgment possibility