60 Months to Ironman
Month One, Mid-Point
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
— Betty Friedan
For whatever reason, everyone — I mean, everyone — is posting pictures of themselves from 2009 and 2019, to compare them and judge how hard aging has hit them.
Predictably, it’s devolved to where today I’ve seen someone showing a porn star’s ass on one side and an old woman’s sagging ass on the other. Also, one with a cat on one side and themselves today on the other. (Not only have they aged — they changed species. HAHA!)
I have a relationship with aging that maybe is a little different from most people’s.
My mother died young, at 48, when I happened to be exactly half her age. I turned 47 in October. Right now, as I write this, I’m as old as she was when she had the mammogram that changed everything.
