"Grandma was slow but she was old." I don't know if that saying is still popular, but I used to hear it from time to time in my younger years. I don't think older people are necessarily slower. It is just that many of us have been turned out to pasture and don't have to move quickly.
Another variable in this slow-old juxtaposition is experience. Older folk due to experience know how to do something easily and well so don't get in a dither as might the inexperienced young. "Slow" effortless moving is a result. One does not waste energy taking paths of little or no fruition.
Reminds me of the old story of the young bull talking to the old bull on a hill overlooking a pasture: "Let's run down there and make love to one of those cows." The old bull said: "Let's walk down there and make love with them all."
ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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