AGING
Go As Far As You Can
To live is to age
We’re all getting older. The alternative is not getting older, which in the current state of medicine and the world means dying. So, getting older is all we got and seems like the best option.
But, as we age our bodies wear out. We are easier to break, more often tired, and sometimes the very cells that we have counted on rebel against us. Again, better than the alternative.
We sleep more, leap less, and the lines of worry deepen. We plan less distantly, pray more frequently, and look more closely at the legacy we will inevitably leave behind. But, the other option is being done with all of that permanently.
On the bright side, we are compelled to hug more, are confident to taste more, and open our eyes more to the small things around us. It is in those new, brief things that we continue to live, the alternative to having never experienced them.
If there is family or if you have friends, you will age together and eventually consider yourself blessed. If you’re lucky, you will hold hands, laugh about times past, and whisper about those whose aging is done. Sometimes the whispering makes it less real.
And so we age. Do it gracefully. Do it ungracefully. Do it with determined dancing, or shaking of a fist. Do it with love, understanding, passion, fear, resolve, or caring. Do it screaming, or do it with quietness. Do it for those who can’t, and those who won’t, but do it if you can. Because there will be a day when your aging will cease to be a thing.
