How reliable is a male politician, journalist or TV presenter if he hides his natural hair color to pretend to be much younger than he really is. You are actually lying twice, namely about your age and about your hair color. In any case, you cannot maintain that you are always completely honest. The American politician Trump (left) was born in 1946 and would like us to believe that he still has blond hair.
Wisdom comes with age
Being a parent has many advantages. Because if you are over 50, so almost old and wise:
- You have a lot of life experience, you are less rash, you no longer walk in lockstep.
- Are you a safer road user than when you were 21?
- You are more likely to be respected by others.
- If you express an opinion, it is more likely to be accepted than when you were still a kid.
- You are taken seriously into account at work and in society.
- Usually a mortgage no longer hangs like a millstone around your neck, because you have often already repaid the necessary amount.
In short, you can be proud that you no longer have wild hair, and it is misleading to color your hair to make yourself appear younger.
Disadvantages next to advantages
Apparently, on balance, there are a number of disadvantages to growing older that do not outweigh the many advantages mentioned above, because once we reach the age of 30, we all try very hard to appear younger than we actually are. It is therefore best to always guess someone 5 years younger that you really value him/her, because that makes you more popular than guessing someone 5 years too old.
Attractive and dynamic
Being young means that you have a long active and dynamic life ahead of you. This makes you, as it were, relatively more valuable than someone with senior status. For employers, in the choir, in club life, etc., these aspects often count more than experience, security and understanding.
Attraction to the opposite sex, which is associated with vitality and beauty, is probably the other main reason why we prefer to appear young rather than old. Sex is apparently a more important asset than wisdom and experience, especially if you are still buzzing with hormones. Undoubtedly the main reason that the cosmetic and clothing industries generate billions in turnover.
Sport
When it comes to sports, it is also better to be young than old, because your chances as a well-paid professional athlete or prize winner decrease significantly after the age of 30. If, as a relatively fast male runner, you can still run the 10 km within 33 minutes at the age of 30, this will normally increase to more than 40 minutes by the age of 60.
Aging measures
At least against the appearance of aging. If you want to continue to look young and vital, you will have to pay attention to a number of things:
Color of your hair
Yes, it is true that gray hair inexorably shows that you are getting older. If you color your hair, you immediately look 10 years younger than you really are. Be careful not to color too extreme, and beautify those around you to see how conspicuously ,that old man, hides his gray hair. How it should clearly not be done, because it is counterproductive, is something you see every day on TV from many politicians and journalists. Although Mr Robert ten Brink and Hans Kraaij Jr present light-hearted programmes, they have to ensure that they are not ridiculous themselves. If you have a profession as a politician or journalist, where your credibility, reliability and integrity are important, is it wise to lie about your age? Because if you’re already dishonest about your age, how do you deal with the rest of the truth.
Body weight
It goes without saying that a slim figure appears more youthful than fat, partly because the typical male belly usually only appears later in life and is therefore a characteristic of aging.
Movement
If you exercise, it cuts both ways, on the one hand you can maintain your body weight better and on the other hand, your better body condition ensures that you do not have to pant and gasp for breath like an elderly person when you go up a flight of stairs. crawled.
Work pressure and worries
Chronic tension and worries make a person look very tired and therefore older than he actually is. Sometimes you can do something about that, but often unfortunately you cannot.
Pretending to be young makes you young
Research shows that living again and behaving the way you did when you were young also helps. Psychologist René Diekstra once published an article about this in the press. By starting to live again as we lived at a much younger age, a person indeed becomes younger, both mentally and physically. This has been demonstrated by an expert from Harvard University and is described in the book Clockwise: mindful health and the power of possibility. In 1981, a group of men were asked to live and think for a week as if they were still living in 1959. Indeed, a series of positive changes were observed after that week. They turned out to be physically stronger, stood straighter, were more flexible, had a firmer gait, and could hear and see better. Intelligence scores had also improved. Conclusion: acting young actually makes your mind and body younger.