[muawiyah]

The Hindus always said that you will understand your father when you reach 50 years of age.

[Cinnamon]

that explains the Murthawi effect

[Man50D]

But, instead, the over-50 crowd handles life's rotten realities and finds life's bright side more effectively than whippersnappers do. In no small part, that's because the aging brain makes critical emotional adjustments, a new study indicates.
Maybe it's due to the fact the over fifty crowd realizes aging heart can't handle the stress!

[mewzilla]

But, instead, the over-50 crowd handles life's rotten realities and finds life's bright side more effectively than whippersnappers do.

Jeepers, not the ones we know...

[bannie]

That's why it's not FUN to ride on freaky roller coasters any longer. However, I am happier than I used to be.

[Carolinamom]

They used to call it wisdom.

[stands2reason]

It explains how grandparents can overlook their grandchildren's faults.

[VanShuyten]

This gradual reorganization of the brain's emotion system may result from older folk responding to accumulating personal experiences by increasingly looking for meaning in life, the researchers propose in the June 14 Journal of Neuroscience.

The Meaning of Life

The Galaxy Song

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

(Animated calliope interlude)

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

[FixitGuy]

Gee whiz. And I thought that old folks just realized that no matter what they do, their kids will survive or not, having little to do with all their parents "help and good advice".

At least mine don't seem to care about all "my hard earned wisdom".

No flambe, pulease.

[Graymatter]

We worry less about some things because we've learned they don't happen. (The argument with the spouse is not going to destroy the relationship.) We worry more about other things because we've learned what can happen. (Stay off roller coasters.)

[TXnMA]

That computer wil totally freak if it watches my expressions while I'm on FR!!!

[Buffettfan]

Wisdom of the ages.

[Fairview]

Oh, darn: here I thought my newfound happiness in life was due entirely to overcoming past suffering, prayer, hard-acquired wisdom, forbearance, and mental discipline. And it turns out it's all biology and I would have gotten happier without having to go through all that. Nuts.

[AndrewC]

These younger adults' emotion-related activity centers on the amygdala, a brain structure previously implicated in automatic fear responses.

Hmmm, seems strange that the Princess would be involved in these things. But her husband did have lots of metachlorians(sp?).

[Cruz]

ping

[keats5]

Maybe more old folks find God.