Enjoyment Of Life Essay

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I personally disagree with the statement. I believe that there remains a widely held misconception that the ‘enjoyment of life’ must be accompanied by youth, vitality and energy. In order to substantiate my arguments, I must insist on a more profound elucidation of what is meant by ‘enjoyment of life,’ in order to demonstrate how old people are actually more capable of succeeding in these pursuits compared to young people. Firstly, old people have the means to enjoy life more than young people do. Young adolescents, teenagers, and perhaps young adults like myself rarely have the financial means to fulfill the desires we wish to pursue the most. For example, it has been my entire lifelong dream to travel to Europe and experience the dazzling …show more content…

Old people would already have a lifetime worth of experiences and lessons to draw upon, and so will be less prone to repeating the same mistakes that plagued them in their youth. Young people, on the other hand, are embarking on their life journeys for the first time. Their route will be fraught with obstacles and wrong decisions. Young people are more likely to be preoccupied with the wrong things and will not have the time to cherish time as it passes by. For instance, my grandparents (both of whom are soon to reach their eighties) are fully cognizant of what joys they would get from life. They know that no joy can derive from spending their entire day gazing at the television or spending endless pointless hours on the Internet. Instead, they seek to fulfill more gratifying experiences, such as taking a stroll in the park, visiting a tranquil and serene spot, and appreciating the beauty of life at its best. I, however, being markedly younger and more inexperienced than they are, waste my days in pursuing superficial and comparatively meaningless goals that will only cause me stress and worry, such as worrying about my examination grades and getting into the right school, when in fact these things bear little impact to the end result of my life. My grandparents therefore have the ability to obtain a deeper insight of what “life” is about, and then to fulfill that quest with pursuits that would genuinely bring them

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