Young people don’t think much about old age. They see an elderly couple holding hands and they think, “Oh, aren’t they cute!” Or they may hold a door open for an older person, or offer to shovel the snow from their aging neighbors’ front walk.

But the older you get, the more you are forced to think about it — not about dying, necessarily, but about living with your deteriorating self. About things lost: friends, hair, memory, libido; and things found: belly fat, a hiatal hernia, wrinkles.

The other day, I stumbled across the perfect comment on the aging process by English author, screenwriter and critic Martin Amis, to share with you today:

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work
of making everyone look and feel like shit.”

– Martin Amis, “London Fields”

And that, my younger readers, is what you have to look forward to.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/18/25