OK, boomers, let's not be self-congratulatory. Yes, we look and dress more youthfully than our parents did, we try to do gym, walk or jog, play tennis, travel and walk up to a café in Montmartre without getting winded. Etcetera.
But sixty-five is not the new forty-five. Sixty-five is hips and knees on the front burner; cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and hormone levels and cataracts are flashing yellow lights. Small talk no longer involves sex (teens to early twenties); sex, work, pregnancy, childbirth and children (twenties-thirties); work, weight, schedules, money and children (forties); work, weight, operations and grown children (fifties).
It's about age and survival.
Sixty-five is early old.
You creak, you lose things, you need a remote-control key-finder to find your remote-control key, you can't find your thirty-two different passwords. You're a mess. But you're surviving.
Looking forward to the cool new 70---hey hey!
(Ouch, just threw my shoulder out).
But sixty-five is not the new forty-five. Sixty-five is hips and knees on the front burner; cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and hormone levels and cataracts are flashing yellow lights. Small talk no longer involves sex (teens to early twenties); sex, work, pregnancy, childbirth and children (twenties-thirties); work, weight, schedules, money and children (forties); work, weight, operations and grown children (fifties).
It's about age and survival.
Sixty-five is early old.
You creak, you lose things, you need a remote-control key-finder to find your remote-control key, you can't find your thirty-two different passwords. You're a mess. But you're surviving.
Looking forward to the cool new 70---hey hey!
(Ouch, just threw my shoulder out).
