Sometimes when a person gets older, they say things which actually meant the opposite or say something that sounds like but it was not intentional rather its what they thought. Sometimes I think as years pass by some people leave their thoughts behind in exchange for the forgotten emotion just so when they get old they can feel detached to the world and easily let go when they have to. Then it results to confabulations and hallucinations, sometimes dreams come into play too.
I really wonder what those people thought when they were younger. Did they really think that it would be easy? Was their pain weigh more than their life?