aging
sonically
the quiet (or not-so-quiet) shock when aging shifts from
gradual to seemingly supersonic
Time, once an abstract concept, has quietly staked its claim on your body and your habits. It hits you— IN everyday moments that suddenly feel different.
One day you’re reaching for the top shelf without thinking, the next you’re calculating the safest way to bend down for your dropped keys. The mirror shows a familiar face, yet something has shifted: a new line here, a silver thread there.
JOHN MAYER
Stop this Train
So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game
To find a way to say that life has just begun
Stop this train / I want to get off and go home again / I can’t take the speed it’s moving in
PAUL SIMON
Old Friends
Can you imagine us years from today sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy.
“People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.”
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Philosopher
As we advance in years, things look smaller, one and all; and Life, which had so firm and stable a base in the days of our youth, now seems nothing but a rapid flight of moments.
E. B. WHITE
Once More to the Lake
A realization while revisiting a childhood spot with his son, feeling the overlay of generations and his own mortality: he describes the sensation of being both the boy he was and the father he had become, with time compressing in a
disorienting way
BOB DYLAN
Forever Young
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift...
May you stay forever young
“I’m the old man I used to brush off...Someday, you’ll be like me—a ripe 80 years old—but right now, you’re free.”
JULES RENARD
(French author, 1864–1910)
Old age comes suddenly, like snow. One morning upon awakening, we realize that everything is white.
Instead, you’re stepping into a richer, deeper story—one where wisdom begins to outweigh the ache in your knees, and every gray hair carries a story worth keeping.
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