How do you promote National Senior Citizen Day without seeming trite or self serving (if you are indeed a senior citizen). As you probably have guessed, my journey into senior citizenship has not been one I have fully embraced. I despise organizations like AARP (mainly because they start badgering you when you turn 50 and don't let up until you subscribe and get their free AARP tote bag). Also not all senior citizen's have retired.
When trying to develop a design for National Senior Citizen Day I asked Gemini for some ideas and it copped out with its usual "we are working on being able to created images with people in them instead of inanimate objects because as AI we don't really see why people should be upset if the image has more limbs and digits than an actual person does, but we are trying to understand even if we don't really care." Then I asked it to depict an image of an older person carved into an apple because when I think senior citizen, I think carved, dried apple sculpture.
As you can see, it looked a bit creepy so I asked for an image depicting wisdom, because there is this myth that when you are old, you should be in theory wise. My take on it is that if you are stupid, getting older just makes you old and stupid. If you learn from mistakes, there is a chance that you will become wiser. But there is also a chance that you will have learned something from your mistakes and then you got old and forget most things. So the whole wisdom myth is PR thing. But still, if I am going to promote National Senior Citizen Day I want to make it positive.
Finally, Gemini pumped out this image of an old man's hands holding a book. Because if you read a book you are wise. Though you could say that the print in the book is too small for most senior's to read and let's be honest, they are likely watching Netflix instead of reading books to expand the wisdom they are supposed to have because they are senior citizens.
As you can see, I am struggling with being positive about National Senior Citizen Day. Though it beats tomorrow, which is National Tooth Fair Day.
Maybe I need a break from designing things for "National Day" days.
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