Read about it or be there?
Reading about pregnancy/deliverying a baby
Reading about chemotherapy and having cancer
Reading about how to drive and get to your destination
OR
Giving birth, surviving chemo/cancer, getting behind the wheel and getting to where you are going under your own effort
Opining or doing?
A teen or middle-aged opinion about what being old is like might be interesting but it isn't helpful
An old person telling you what being old is like for them is. Ya gotta be there. Ya gotta experience it..do the homewori..be tested...pass.