Amazing stories, great tips, and long life, for these reasons John visits his grandparents every weekend. He wants to learn what life was like 60, 70, 80 years ago, and what better way than from the people who lived through JFK’s presidency, the Vietnam war, and the Regonomics era. Whether visiting grandparents or being one, living a long, action packed, life is an advantage in that life-stories are passed on to the next generation, but disadvantages of long life can be horrific if it causes suffering every long drawn out day.
Without long life, past generations couldn’t educate future generations with their own experiences. For example, without the experienced elderly, young kids wouldn’t know what life was like before they were born. Long life is a big part in why we know so much about history. Because parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents tell stories about their life the young knowledge of the, rookie-at-life, child grows like a beanstalk. In addition, life is full of books that carry events of a lifetime, and a long, event-filled, life creates a library of history and experiences to pass on to future generations. This advantage of long life shows that long life will create a personal history from a different viewpoint than conventional history books. Whether telling stories or reading a personal history book long life is an advantage for both future and past generations.
On the other hand, long life is a disadvantage if never ending, stressful, painful suffering is involved. To illustrate, a life full of brutal wars, devastating terror attacks, and near death experiences can cause nightmares as scary as zombies. Suffering, though horrible, is one of the few disadvantages of long life. In addition, a long life will take a toll on old grandparents, like Johns, bones. An action packed life is hard on bones and can cause suffering in the future. Because of images stamped into the mind, experiences, like the great depression, can haunt, with horrific stories, people every day and long living people get nonstop, creepy, keep you awake, images every day, also action packed life can cause bone suffering.
Luckily for John, his grandparents have lived a long happy life, and he can hear their stories without their wincing from the painful memories. Therefore, long life has many advantages, but like everything a few disadvantages.