AGING
I have been pondering the amazing fact that we all start aging the moment we are born. A baby who has reached their first Birthday is still a baby, but never the less they have been aging for one long year already.
Do you think there is some way we can analyze the process we call aging? Of course there are many different ways, and probably there are as many ways to describe it, as there are ways to live it?
So far the lack of time, and the efforts, my thoughts settled on ten
or twelve commonalities in the process of aging.
BABY-Babies seem to be the one stage of aging where a lot of attention is given to them. They are cute, they laugh and giggle, but they also have some small defects, such as crying, screaming, and the bad one going to the “potty” when ever they feel like it. Sometimes I just wonder if they do it ONLY to get attention. These things go on for a year or so and for the most part wear off as they grow from babies to youngsters. A little time is spent in the terrible two’s, but parents, for the most part, try to forget them?
YOUNGSTER- The next age bracket could be called a lot of things,
but I have chosen Youngster. And yes there are many times in this period of
life where they could be called “other very definitive” names. However this is
also a a period when they are occasionally called “my angel, my wonderful
child, honey” and other childhood names to offset some of the names we do not
like to talk about?
TEEN or TWEEN- I do not know exactly where or when the word Tween
entered the aging show but it seems like it happened when a person become a
young married or an old Teen.
The teen years were a time of mixed emotions. It was a time of
thinking you were grown up but sometimes thought like a youngster, but wanted
to be with the tween’s. In fact there were times when you did not think you fit
in any place?
MARRIAGE- Then a lot of things changed in your life. You found
that special girl. You got married. And at least for me the most special time
period of my life started.
Of course there were some tough times during this period. Of
course this period was also the longest period of aging. During this time you
feel like you can do anything. You could conquer the world. You pick a
vocation, you can fix anything. And for
most people it is the longest and happiest time period of your life. And how
many things do you learn--- just by having a family?
MIDDLE AGE- Then you seem to turn around 2 or 3 times and realize
you have become a Father & Mother- a provider for others- and also quite
rapidly you have become OLDER!
This is the age where your Children and Grand Children find it
easy to remind you that you are old and cannot do a lot of things that you
could when you were just middle age.
OLD AGE- and then you wake up one morning and you are OLD! When
did that happen? At what age did you become Old? Did it happen all at once or
did it just creep up on you?
Did it happen while you were sitting on your cabin deck, and
preferred that to going on a hike? Or should you have got a clue that you were
getting old when you told people you would rather look at Photo Albums than
walk down to the lake?
And You REALLY should have got a clue when the Grand and Great
Grand kids started asking questions like this:::
Grandpa how come your neck has a waddle like a turkey?- How come
you huff & puff like the Big Bad Wolf when you just walk up the stairs?-
How come you hold the newspaper so close to your face when you read it?- How
come you go to bed at 9:00 o’clock? How come you don’t like to drive your car
anymore? ( you used to tell us you drove about 30 000 miles per year?
I refuse to venture into ANCIENT
WRB 11 Jan 2019
