Is Age An Illusion?

[actualized1]

hi,

is age an illusion?

[Soulbass]

yes, and time too

[Azrael]

2 hours ago, actualized1 said:

is age an illusion?

Is it hanging from the trees so that one could see it?

[cetus]

44 minutes ago, Arik said:

Is it hanging from the trees so that one could see it?

@Arik To sit in the forest and see the splendor of new growth is easy. Finding splendor in what is returning to the forest floor is hard.

[cetus]

3 hours ago, actualized1 said:

hi,

is age an illusion?

@actualized1  Yes, plastic surgery is too.

[Azrael]

9 hours ago, cetus56 said:

@actualized1  Yes, plastic surgery is too.

You just made my morning, dude. Cheers

[bobbyward]

the content of any thought is an illusion !!!

what is your experience of age, how do you know you or others are a certain age?

 

[Saarah]

@actualized1 I don't think age is an illusion because we can see with our very eyes that humans develop and then age and become wrinkly till they die. It certainly exists as a process.
Age the tool, the numbers used is the illusion though because we all age at different rates and yet we've standardized it.
Using numbers for age as a set amount of time is similar to saying everyone who learns piano for 2 years will develop X amount of skills, time isn't good to measure the development of qualities in people.

Time itself is definitely our construct. It's good for practical purposes and even people who live in the present find time useful for that. But it becomes a problem when we cling dearly to different times that existed in our memories or we worry so much about the future, because we must be reminded it doesn't exist. This helped me when i had an exam i hadn't revised well for, i noticed a slight worry in me about failing the entire year, and i realised i'm worrying about a non-existent thing or hypothetical scenario which is just simply madness, and i said i only need to focus on what's happening right now, and right now i was fine and all my worry went away and the day was great even though my exam wasn't the best.

I made a post recently about nostalgia because feeling that connection to the past is so bitter when you know all this about time and you can't shake your attachment from it