George Sanders Speech Reflection
A thing that really stuck out to me
while reading the speech is that Saunders mentioned that with age, you
naturally become nicer. Maturity has a great deal in the evolution of “becoming
nicer.” As he suggested, in our more mature state, we are able to recognize how
illogical and insensible it becomes to be arrogant and mean overall. We are
able to recognize the world in a larger scale or picture and realize that
nothing really does revolve around any one of us; and if the world isn’t about
me then it is about all of us. Therefore instead of focusing on me, I can focus
on us in order to reach my attention to a larger scale and touch more people.
However, in some cases I feel as if this may not necessarily be true. I
sometimes picture older people to be more sour and bitter. There always is that
old man on the street that hates noise and children, and ironically it seems to
be a reoccurring theme. But there is also that universal truth that
grandparents are the kindest and sweetest people. And they really are, maybe
that’s why some old people are so bitter. They don’t have anyone giving that
love to like grandkids, and they are wasting the love that they are capable of
giving. Overall, I agree with Sanders that with age also comes the ability to
be more loving, kind, and caring. I think the real point Sanders is making
throughout the entire speech is that don’t wait until you are old to obtain
this kind of love. Start using it now so that when you are old, you don’t look
back and think, “I really should have started acting this way earlier.” So in
reality, I guess he really is just saying to live your life with no regrets,
but he is also saying that if you have regrets, don’t let it be about the
moments when kindness was lacking but rather the deadly disease you got when
swimming in monkey feces.
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