In today’s world, some people believe that it is a natural tendency for people to shift their attitudes and their day-to-day habits as they grow older. Others may disagree otherwise. In my opinion, I do not fully agree that people will change their habits and opinions as they age.
First and foremost, I believe that these habits and opinions derive from their life experiences. For example, my grandmother always tells me to preserve every last bit of our food if we cannot finish them all. She has gone through the famine occured in China back in the 60s. During that time, she built a habit of preserving every food she could find, even if it went bad. Even to this day, she still carries this habit forward and has not changed since then. The key idea is that habits such as hers are formed through critical events that already happened, and people will not change them as time goes by.
Next, I think it is challenging for people to change their thoughts and the way they do things due to the inertia. From a business class, I learnt that human beings are generally reluctant to make changes due to a phoenomena called “the brain inertia”. This is where our brain gets so accustomed to the way in which we are thinking and doing things, and a simple change would cause us to be upset. For example, if a person gets used to washing his face before brushing his teeth, he may get confused if he brushes his teeth before washing his face. The same analogy also applies to ideas and habits. People learnt these thought processes and ideas from a long time ago and they get used to them so it is demanding to change them.
In conclusion, I totally disagree that people will easily make changes to the way they use to think and interact with things around them as they get older due to the brain inertia and the fact that habits and opinions are formed through events that already occured.