{"id":2662,"date":"2014-11-07T18:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T01:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2014-11-07T18:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T01:08:47","slug":"this-just-in-the-longer-you-live-the-older-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/this-just-in-the-longer-you-live-the-older-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: The Longer You Live, the Older You Are!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Banksy’s view of older folk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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They look like big insects with wheels, those people with walkers and canes. \u00a0I pass so many of them on the streets. \u00a0Every time, it gets scarier.<\/p>\n

“That’s OK” I tell myself, “Lots of them are really obese, many are clearly far far older or looking it and some are obviously dealing with life-long disabilities. \u00a0They need all those appliances. \u00a0I don’t.” \u00a0Even so, each time they pass I see, for the first time, not another species but a possible (perhaps inevitable) future.<\/p>\n

We all age. \u00a0Our grandsons are growing so fast; miss a week and they seem transformed. \u00a0Our kids have somehow become men of 35 and almost 40! \u00a0 Younger people are more willing to reveal their resentment of those of us from the 60’s and 70’s. (“We’re just bitter because the media spent our formative years (well, the teen and college ones) calling us slackers and then our entire generation got known as a waste of space. It’s still mean about us! I think we are the hardest workers who will work until we drop dead<\/em>.”)<\/p>\n

I understand what that means, even though I disagree with much of it. \u00a0I don’t mind the idea of aging; so far I’m pretty lucky in how I feel and what I can do and think and be. \u00a0Even so, I know it all turns on an illness, or a fall, or a loss of strength or hearing or sight. \u00a0I continue to see myself apart from those old people, but somewhere inside I know the truth. \u00a0I can’t hide from it forever.<\/p>\n

We all get old. \u00a0We all change, sometimes decline and sometimes gain wisdom. \u00a0Boomer or Millennial, Gen X or Y – all of us move along the continuum no matter how much we fight it. \u00a0 And no matter how long I sit here trying to finish this, I can’t find a way to make it any better.<\/p>\n

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  They look like big insects with wheels, those people with walkers and canes. \u00a0I pass so many of them on the streets. \u00a0Every time, it gets scarier. “That’s OK” I tell myself, “Lots of them are really obese, many are clearly far far older or looking it and some are obviously dealing with life-long … Continue reading This Just In: The Longer You Live, the Older You Are!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,27,2889,2764,7],"tags":[192,107,369,2970,191,2972,2051,2969,3417,2973,2974,625,3421,2968,2971],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-current-affairs","category-grandparents-2","category-i-seem-to-write-a-lot-of-obits","category-life","tag-aging-2","tag-baby-boom-2","tag-baby-boomers","tag-banksy","tag-boomers","tag-cane","tag-elder","tag-elderly","tag-family","tag-gen-x","tag-gen-y","tag-millennials","tag-nablopomo","tag-older","tag-walker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-GW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}