The great age debate… What significance does age hold and who holds that significance? In the process of producing the documentary, I have learned that people’s perception of age is potentially influenced by the societal norms that we are subject to.

The numbers never change but our ways of being certainly do, where we can seemingly accomplish so much within a short period of time. Time in this case represents age. An age where 10-year-olds can be CEO’s, a seemingly ‘grown’ position yet, untitled 10 is still considered immature. An age where we no longer envision the rocking chair 70-year-old, and instead see 70-year-old athletes putting our tech-focused youths to fitness shame.

A debate that argues age equates to experience, yet experience is subject to one’s willingness to gain it. A 20-year-old who has travelled the world vs a 60-year-old who has never stepped out of their area. We live in a society now that has embraced the saying ‘age aint nothing but a number’. So how has the perception of age in generations past then influenced our decisions and lifestyles? How will this blurred definition of age then influence the behaviours of humanity in the future?

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