@sceptical guy wrote:
@eve wrote:
Growing old may be a pain in the derrierre but its a dam sight better than the alternative.
agreed Eve. As I said, it’s the one sickness for which nobody looks forward to the cure.
Also, there are compensations. you’re more wised up, you get fooled less, you get hurt less. It still happens, but you can usually handle it all better.
Also, it’s taking longer to get old – literally. People are still sprightly in most ways into their 70s at least.
But – once old age does set in, the decline is as fast as it ever was.
Just like to frighten the thoughtless kind a little. The sort who once (amazingly) chuckled to me that I would die sooner than they because I was older (!!) Could well be. But it ain’t necessarily so
But into Room 101 go the owners of old people’s homes.
100% agree about old folks home owners