marko
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So here's my musing for the day:
I'll be turning 68 soon. By my appearance no one believes that I'm that age (by most accounts my 90 year old mom looks about 75). Good genes.
Now most days I feel great, strong and full of energy, ready and able to take on anything. Every tenth or twelfth day however I feel creaky. Just 'not with it', not quite as physically flexible, not quite as energetic; maybe I didn't get a good night's sleep. DW shocked me the other day by commenting that "you shouldn't be surprised, you're closer to 70 than 60 you know".
So here's my question. For those of you who are further along, did your aging creep up on you? Like, did 'feeling your age' go from once a week to once every three days to every day over time?
Or was it just a slow, imperceptible degradation? I doubt anyone just woke up one day feeling old!
Is it a progression where the spaces between feeling young and feeling old get closer together and then eventually you just feel old all the time? Or is it more of a slow, subtle thing? Or, like when to take SS, it depends upon the individual?
I'd ask mom but she's up on a ladder right now cleaning her gutters (only half kidding).
I'll be turning 68 soon. By my appearance no one believes that I'm that age (by most accounts my 90 year old mom looks about 75). Good genes.
Now most days I feel great, strong and full of energy, ready and able to take on anything. Every tenth or twelfth day however I feel creaky. Just 'not with it', not quite as physically flexible, not quite as energetic; maybe I didn't get a good night's sleep. DW shocked me the other day by commenting that "you shouldn't be surprised, you're closer to 70 than 60 you know".
So here's my question. For those of you who are further along, did your aging creep up on you? Like, did 'feeling your age' go from once a week to once every three days to every day over time?
Or was it just a slow, imperceptible degradation? I doubt anyone just woke up one day feeling old!
Is it a progression where the spaces between feeling young and feeling old get closer together and then eventually you just feel old all the time? Or is it more of a slow, subtle thing? Or, like when to take SS, it depends upon the individual?
I'd ask mom but she's up on a ladder right now cleaning her gutters (only half kidding).
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