I agree that we gather quite a lot of data on life as we go. I'm 41 now, so I have 41 years of data to pull from when forming theories.

But, to have a coherent conversation with some one it helps to state a theory and then back that up with some evidence. If you are not a researcher on this topic then it can be helpful to point to other people's research.

I'm not discounting your life experience, I'm just looking to find some structure in this convo otherwise it's just people yelling at each other.

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Adding ageism on top of authority fallacy is not an argument. Explain why it's zero sum. Explain why comparison has to be avoided especially in a social heirarchy and explain why the examples I gave are wrong, or I'm going to resign you to saying whatever you want to say with no real argument. So far I haven't heard anything that makes any sense besides "it makes me feel bad"...which is just evidence that you feel bad. I'm okay with that. I just thought it was a interesting subject and thought your original post was missing a lot of information when it comes to social comparisons.

Memory and time are illusory databases. They are not the true elements of our life.

Memory fades. Time never stays still and fleets away. True life is timeless and eternal. If you dot your life with time-marks, you are dying; you are not living. Time is death because you can't inhale the same breath again.