Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.
It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
