"Well that's what happens when you get our age". That one statement is such a failure of living when you consider someone in their 50's said it. This comment shows how powerful our popular TMZ culture defines age. Because we are still defining culture by youth and some twisted heroic archetypes like Kim K, and Lindsay. etc. But it is curious...
In the last couple of months I have been lucky to interview some folks in their 90's and they have the license to say that first statement but I have yet to hear them utter it. My quest in part is to continue to find a way to look at getting older like the way the group the ANIMALS sang "We've gotta get out of this place. If it's the last thing we ever do." Basically while the Animals would laugh at 50 years old and it was old then... I see treating the idea of older age in a friggin' rebellious manner.
Like I stated I am learning a lot from these elders. From me there's a new definition of age that is coming.
And for those that give up in their 50's and whine I say write em off. Always ever day. The best is yet to come "And baby it will be fine."
Monday, May 23, 2011
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