Being old
Oh, boys, you’ll know it. You’ll try taste being old.
You didn’t think about it before, but it happens, suddenly when you least expect it.
It’s strange how your body, which has run perfectly till now, doesn’t anymore. Nothing important, you know? At least at the beginning, but every further day more defined.
First could be your neck, or a leg, then there will be something wrong more and more often .
Don’t worry
It is not foolish, it is not unbelievable: simply, you are getting old.
When it starts there is no evidence of changes, you feel well as ever before, you feel timeless. Nevertheless when you realize time has passed, there is difference.
The first knowledge that something is wrong comes one morning while shaving yourself, when you look at your whiskers ending on beard. Is there something? Maybe! Have a look! The colour seems to be different. “Hey, what’s that?” That’s your aging, that’s you getting old.
Life Is connected to time, life is time passing, mostly in a whisper, in a time.
That’s not the only matter, that’s not the most important either.
Being old, what’s significant then?
When the moment arrives fix the past, make a balance and, hopefully, enjoy the result.
If it is not positive, your mind will change the sign for you, anyway.
With the past filed you should schedule the future, but you don’t know how long it will be.
It doesn’t matter you will trust in the next tomorrow, at least one day, usually one week, one year or more.
Tomorrow is always sure.
A bright tomorrow
I know, tomorrow will be bright, so bright you will not be able to keep your eyes open.
Be sure, there will be a fresh egg to suck, every new day.
On the other hand, the previous time becomes foggier and foggier .
Whenever you don’t trust me, whenever you wait trembling for tomorrow every night, hoping for another day, for a new chance, please ask yourself why?
You’ll have a new day to do what?
I guess to do nothing!
Just to become older and not die.
Giancarlo
Cover image: di Jozef Israëls, Quando si diventa vecchi, 1878 CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7625799