Getting Old Sucks. Getting Disrespected Sucks Worse.

And Youth goes right on growing old

Jan Blount
AfroSapiophile
Published in
7 min readFeb 23

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My thoughts and feelings about the personal experience of “getting up there in years” are pretty succinctly and accurately expressed in a saying on a popular T-Shirt making the rounds lately. The message on the T-Shirt is “It’s Weird Being the Same Age as Old People”. That’s so true, you know? It’s like, you never REALLY think it’s going to happen to you, not REALLY. You think to yourself, “I’ll be on top of all the changes as they happen. I’ll work at keeping fit. I’ll make sure I…

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Jan Blount
AfroSapiophile

Educated, but averse to sophistry. I write about what I know, what angers me and what moves me. I ponder about race, politics, and whether true love exists.