A flexible container impinged upon by an outside force will change shape temporarily, but will spring back to its previous configuration shortly thereafter.

If you do nothing to improve your spine's flexibility as you get older, your spine will deteriorate further and the spinal nerves will be increasingly impinged upon.

Theres something deeply important about the early experience of being in the presence of somebody without being impinged upon by their demands, and without them needing you to make a demand on them.