Aged Like a Fine What?

What do you think gets better with age?

They say wine gets better with age. It can also go sour. I guess it depends on how you store and treat your bottles.

The same is true of human beings. The cosmetic ad that proclaimed, “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better” assumed the application of said beauty products. Left untreated, a human being may, as Woody Allen suggests, not get mellow but instead “ripen and then rot.”

Recently a person going through midlife (and all the crises that that can entail) said, “Why didn’t anyone tell it’d be like this?” Meaning personal turmoil and health degradation. My response was: “You weren’t listening, the same way people of my generation didn’t listen when our elders advised, ‘Don’t get old.’”

But no one listens. We’re immortal when we’re young, and immune (or so we think!) to the advances of age. And then—there’s the weight gain, and the back twinges, and the stiff muscles, and the…list goes on.

So my advice is to take care of yourself. Close those exercise and activity rings. Stand up when your smart watch tells you you’ve been sitting too long. (Yes, you can probably tell I bought one recently.) Keep your mind active with puzzles and games and not with worry and concern. The last one is the hardest, I know, but we have to try. I am imagining nursing homes of the future to be even more like concentration camps than they are now.

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