Getting old, and being reminded of it. Get to your 60s and you will be reminded of getting old... Almost constantly. If not for yourself... Physical abilities diminishing... health issues emerging... then by everyone around you. Family and friends pass away. And all the tv & movies stars that you enjoyed when young... well, they're all dead. The older you get... the more people pass away. Watching old movies or tv shows... well, all you see it dead people... they have all died. Emotionally, you seem be reminded of death everyday. It's always been this way for centuries, but personally doesn't really touch you until higher and higher percentages of your life pass away and dies. Something unique to deal with emotionally. Hard to imagine living into your 90s... when almost everything and everyone that you once knew is gone. Wondering exactly when and how your own mortality will reach the end. Quite the emotional quandary. Learning to live with it, day by day, is a process. And while it's nothing new with respect to social society over the decades... It's new for me. And will be new for everyone, eventually.
