Unlike trauma victims, older adults are actually happier than younger adults, so the analogy's not exact, but there's a resemblance in the way they engage with time.
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(This only works if there's mutual respect though; I don't think it would be any good for old or young people to shame each other for having different priorities.)
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I found that older people tend to be way more longtermist than young ones. It may sound trite, but people become rarely adults before they have children.
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Something like that, but subtly different, I think. People begin to *think beyond their lifetime* when they have children. I find myself thinking things like “ok, the rest of my life is for Simon now, and future other kids, not primarily for me.”
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