Getting older is inevitable (apart from the obvious alternative which is not really a reasonable discussion).
With the passage of the days and the months and the years, sometimes we lose and sometimes we gain but halt it or delay we can’t, therefore it’s not a problem that we should spend too much time agonising over.
It seems to me though, that it’s possible to make the time pass a little slower as the weeks flash by.
Experiences, variation, love, camaraderie and friendship are all things that put flags in the sand or hooks in the rock but slow down or fall after we lose our grip.
Getting old though, is something altogether different.
Getting old is a choice to succumb to the stereotype of what it is to be ‘mature’ or wise or slow or fat or cynical or fed up or without imagination or afraid of risk.
This is why I talk to patients all of the time about the difference between chronological and physiological age.
A person who measures their age in ‘physiological’ years gets older but not old.
A person who measures their age chronologically gets old very fast.
It’s much better explained by Frank Turner so, not for the first time in this blog, here is Frank explaining the concept.
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