You are offered a senior discount for the first time in a store.
You bend over and hear yourself grunt like never before.
Doctors become younger than you.
Even if you have stayed slim, you have more body fat.
For the first time in your life you start having health problems
and for the first time in your life have to take medications.
A fall becomes more likely and could kill you.
The sun becomes like an enemy that could cause skin cancer to
your aged and more vulnerable skin.
You might be all alone even if you have family.
The worst, you find yourself in a nursing home that you never
imagined you’d be in, and you are no longer able to take care of yourself.
I’d rather be dead than to get old like that.
Bob Boyd
Author: BobBoyd
Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-)
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