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Funny, because I notice just the opposite. In most cases, people tend to mellow with age and become more easy going, especially after 50 or so. Sure there are cranky old folks out there, and it can be for any number of reasons, most of which I believe are health related. When your health is failing it adds stressors, especially if they are coping with a terminal illness or crippling injury. Being in pain most of the time sort of takes the wind out of your sails. That, or life was a continuous grind for them and they've become hard and salty as a result.
I was going to say the same thing. My mom is in her mid 40s (ok that's not old but as a 21 year old girl that's a lot older than I am ) and she's as kind and jolly as she can be. I have also seen a lot of older people who are so kind and loves to joke with young people. I have encounter some really mean people but who knows why they're mean...But I have no idea why people who work in Driver's ED are always mean. Perhaps they've become callous over the years.
What causes ppl to (tend to) become less kind, as they get older? I'm definitely not saying *all* ppl become meaner with age, just that one thing I have definitely noticed over the years is that as a person ages, the levels of basic kindness in regular interactions with others usually plummets, across the board. Some of the very meanest ppl I've come across, have been in their later years. Why does age tend to make ppl's basic levels of compassion and positive emotional expression of things like love, kindness, and affection, harden and become much more inhibited and repressed?
Could just be your perspective.
Like when Betty White says something bluntly sexual and it's hillarious but if it were some 25yo guy it would have no "shock value". Some people are mean jerks their whole lives but it stands out more with age.
In some people, they have physical problems that cause them some degree of pain and that makes anybody cranky.
What causes ppl to (tend to) become less kind, as they get older? I'm definitely not saying *all* ppl become meaner with age, just that one thing I have definitely noticed over the years is that as a person ages, the levels of basic kindness in regular interactions with others usually plummets, across the board. Some of the very meanest ppl I've come across, have been in their later years. Why does age tend to make ppl's basic levels of compassion and positive emotional expression of things like love, kindness, and affection, harden and become much more inhibited and repressed?
In my limited experience, kindness is subjective. Meanness is obvious. Some people think I am not nice but that is because they only see the negative in what I do.
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) and she's as kind and jolly as she can be. I have also seen a lot of older people who are so kind and loves to joke with young people. I have encounter some really mean people but who knows why they're mean...But I have no idea why people who work in Driver's ED are always mean. Perhaps they've become callous over the years.
