PEOPLE: Aging

I do wish they would confirm their research quickly on the extension of our lifespan. It would enable me to view this Sunday as a mere and more acceptable “approaching middle age.” There may be due some deeper analysis by experts also into the phenomenon of why the body ages more rapidly than the mind—I’m still mid-thirties there, at least.

Or maybe not. In many ways I don’t think differently at all, and mirrors only serve to shock me until one day I will not even acknowledge the image as my own. In other ways, there is an impact on one’s way of thinking; a calmness, willingness to accept while at the same time knowing better but allowing others’ their own opinion without the urge to jump all over them. I’ve noticed in the elderly (this, at least, is still thirty years away as far as I’m concerned) a sense of comfort with one’s self-identity and a gentle adamancy on issues mainly seen as small and insignificant when faced as youth.

There is but one description reserved for senior citizens that allows perhaps only dancers to have access to as well, and one I’m looking forward to with grace.