Humor | Satire
Unlike My Parents, I Won’t Burden My Kids by Aging
I’m making a plan now to always be healthy and able-bodied
I love my parents. Really, I do. That’s not the issue here.
It’s just that their getting older is starting to feel more and more like an affront to me personally.
These days, let me tell you, it’s one fall, one doctor’s appointment, one surgery after another for them. You’d think they’d get sick of it, but their refusal to alter their trajectory toward decrepitude indicates that it must not be so bad.
I, on the other hand, am quite bothered and inconvenienced.
They’ve caused me to reschedule two dinner reservations and a haircut this year alone, and they even get a little snippy with me when I ask if I can finish my errands before coming over to help them up off the staircase landing.
I guess it’s all about them now.
I’ve been informed that everyone ages, and that no one can stop or pause the inevitability of decay as time marches across their body. I don’t know if I fully believe that, though.
I’m more of a mind-over-matter kind of person. I think if people, my parents specifically, really tried harder, maybe they’d be able to stave…
