What Does It Mean to Get Old?
If you’re terrified of aging, you’re in good company. Let’s talk.
Dear Reader: this is a journey, as is aging. As with some of my longer pieces, this might be best consumed in chunks, considered and mulled over. Or not, up to you. However, you and I are aging. Will get old, if we luck out. HOW we do that might well depend on how we frame it. To that, read on.
Was it being stuck in quarantine? Was it too many close inspections in the bathroom mirror? Was it a come home to mama talk with ourselves when we fell in kitchen?
Or did we read an article on Medium that just made us feel….OLD?
From Roz’s article:
I’m happy to be Old. My mother died, too young, at age of 57. It breaks my heart to think of everything she missed by not reaching old age.
And yet when I proudly call myself Old, I’m met with resistance from my fellow seniors, including one colleague at the library where I used to work who, although she was older than I am, always insisted “I’m middle-aged!”
