Old people’s behaviour

10/03/2023 Nilson Lattari

In the world, some lies have been repeated all the time, or rather, people have been repeating them because the world doesn’t tell lies. The world doesn’t bother our opinions, and it continues its trip on its own. The world spins like a ball, despite some people’s opinions who think it is a disc. In my imagination, I compare this supposed disc running across the universe when we are playing with dogs, and we launch a disc in the air, and they go to catch it. Maybe, we are being hunted across the universe right now by a special dog throughout the darkness. And our haunted moon, it’s always looking at us while other stars are laughing a lot at our destiny.
But I am not speaking about these lies. I’m speaking about opinions forged by people who imagine knowing almost everything. And, of course, people have knowledge and behaviours according to their ages.
When I was sixty, I was looking in the mirror and noted that my hairstyle was very conservative, and I remembered a time in the past when it was larger, revolutionary, over my shoulders, and I was a happy guy.
Time passed, and my hair turned shorter to show people an image of a serious, mature guy, and I wondered why I decided to adopt this style. When it was larger, I could walk down the streets and feel it moving softly in the wind. The same wind when I felt this sensation of freedom.
With time, there is an idea that women, after a determined age, have their hair cut, and should no longer have their long hair. I wonder why? I questioned this because once I was waiting for my turn in a medical clinic, and an old lady was waiting for her turn too. She was criticising my wife, who had her hair longer than “normal”.
Then, I thought, when do we close the door of our youth forever? The door of my generation that loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. And now, many former young people believe that our blue sphere is not spinning in the sky. What happened with us, especially this new reality, when everything turned over? This strange behaviour emerged and established this belief that came from somewhere we don’t know.
Do we get older, or do we give up to keep younger?
Of course, youth passes as everything. But why do we give up on it, or why don’t we let it extend longer? Maybe on clothes, behaviours and thoughts because we don’t have to copy our parents, and don’t be a person who doesn’t represent us.
The world is different, as well as the well-behaved lady’s world, who is perfectly connected with her elders.
I guess the world is not different; it is always the same. On the other hand, we are getting less smart, and we don’t know why. After being sixty years old, it’s time to go back to those days of our lives and start them again, but we have to have longer hair, which was a sign of revolution in the past. But it would be a revolution based on amusement, and not like serious people.