Rob Gets Seasoned

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

How do you feel about getting older?

Well, I feel like I talk about this topic all the time! And it’s especially relevant as my birthday was just this past Thursday.

Dwindling Days

There’s a great line in Star Trek: Generations where Captain Picard comes to grips with his advancing age and says “I have fewer days ahead of me than I have behind me“. Well, it’s true that any of us could go at any given moment, I think this is a realization that we all come to once we hit a certain age.

At 51, I don’t like the idea of knowing that I have a fewer days ahead of me than I have behind me. That’s not very reassuring. As we get older, we have to take better care of our health. We have to check in with doctor more frequently. I know that I should be eating better, but I don’t think I’m eating any worse than I ever have at any other point in my life. For whatever that’s worth.

Trying to exercise/workout is more difficult than ever. I require more time to stretch out. I require more rest time, and no matter how hard I work, I know that I will never get the results that I could’ve gotten in my 20s, 30s, or even 40s.

A state of mind

In my head, I’m still in my early 20s. I listen to the same music. I listen to you back then. I watch most of the same TV shows that I watched back then. And I’m still crazy about baseball like I was back then.

I remember when Disney was in the process of filling Star Wars: the force awakens I had read that Mark Hamill had come to the realization that he was the same age then, 64 that Sir Alec Guinness was while they were filming the original Star Wars. I don’t have the exact quote, but I recall him saying that he was blown away by it because he didn’t think of himself as “old”. I still listen to the Rolling Stones and watch Three Stooges videos, he claimed.

I think we all feel like that. I think we all feel like we’re at a certain age mentally in our minds. The beautiful thing is that even though we don’t think of ourselves is getting older and mentally, we are, God willing, be becoming more intelligent and even wiser.

Wisdom is the one thing that I have acquired with my progressing age that I truly appreciate. For that alone, I’m grateful. I’ll take that newfound wisdom that I accumulate every day and try to grow old a little bit more gracefully.

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