Older, wiser, grey?
But back in the day, when she was packing on a lot more weight and everybody still loved her, and she did look great then as well. But she talks about how back then she had way more confidence and sense of self and sense of humor and happiness, as opposed to today, which is ironic. And she constantly grapples with selfesteem issues, etc. And so what do you think it is? Why aren't we getting better and wiser with age?
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 4:40
There will be 50 million memes and 40 million this and 30 million that. That's part of the reason I can probably guess that some of the celebrities feel insecure as they become more popular and more visible. I think a micro segment of that is we are celebrities in our own neighborhood, in our own family, if you will. People are watching us and that is why somewhere we feel little constricted. Oh, my God
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
I think ultimately what is happening and this is amateur psychology of course it is. I have no clue. What is probably happening is that when we are younger, we are more individualistic. Because I was born in 1993, we are taught to be independent, irrespective of gender and all of that. And we are in a society that is broadly and largely collective, collectivism based, right? And we have supreme individualism existing in supreme collectivism
It's one thing to have people tell you if you are beautiful and if you are seen in public and commented in that way, people comment that way to you. It's one thing to hear those things, but you don't necessarily always hear all the negative comments, right? And you suddenly introduce social media and not only do you get a lot of the positive ones, but you now get a lot of the negative ones as well
By the way, I've read that book my life so far over five times, I know it by heart. I know her life by heart. And as the years have passed, I realized that I've acted out of very similar self image issues like she had. And so I guess it was some kind of foreshadowing when I read the book. So I guess I've got my answer in some vague way
But I feel things strongly, and so then I have to be really careful. Okay. Tone it down, Christina. Anyway, I think it's powerful words, language, the things that we tell each other. And, yeah, part of me is, like, so amazed at how much strength you've drawn from Jane Fonda's book. But part of me wonders if and this could be completely off, so just tell me to shut up. Okay
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 3:19
And I am growing old and I feel much more peaceful and at peace with myself and do not care really, by and large about other people's opinions or perspectives, because I'm solely looking at what I can bring to the world, right? And what the larger purpose is, why I am here
Auhona Dutta
@aspeakstoday · 1:52
You don't have that many pressures and worries, whereas when you're an adult, you're overwhelmed because you're vulnerable. You have to take care of so many aspects and you have to worry about so many things and worries. Overall, it's a very overwhelming and pressurizing experience in itself. So you might be gaining knowledge, but that knowledge also sometimes leaves you sensitive because you know how much it can affect you and how much you can affect others
I think it's because we all feel pressure to be perfect, because social media has been a problem. That is what I think, because I remember opening Facebook in 2007 and in between not understanding what it was and how it worked back then, and then thinking, wow, it's great that you can tag people and people will know what I am posting at the moment. Things were different. They were becoming different. I would see people and they would see me
Arif Makhdoomi
@maddy007 · 3:10
From Alexander the Great to the kings to poets to literate science like Einstein, anybody then what really matters? You talk about Einstein, you talk about existing great, he was great. But does anybody bother what they went through? No. So if anybody doesn't bother about what you went through so why should you give anybody so much of importance to their opinions? Come out of it. Try to live the life which you think is right