2 weeks Ago
I am approaching what may be thought of as a significant birthday next month. I’m not sure what makes it significant except the number attached to it. Most people, including the elderly, believe we are younger than we are, even if we have arthritic knees.
Even if we take a morning cocktail of pills, we still believe we're much younger than the calendar dictates. So, here is my guide to knowing, empirically, how old you are. You are old if you remember.
.. Recently, a woman — who had been to a few rodeos herself — looked at me and said, “You’ve got age on you.
” I was about to remonstrate, but I realized that while her manners were wanting, her eyesight wasn’t. Therefore, I shall be bowing to the calendar, and after next month, I will gladly let people hold doors for me, help me with grocery bags and offer a chair when there is a lot of standing about going on. My wife is taking me to Montreal for the big day, but I plan to treat it as nothing to do with moi .
Other people get old. They always have — as I remember. Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS.
He wrote this for InsideSources.com ..
