As I cycle through my friends' social media accounts I find no evidence of mortality, no cognizance of a time when they might get old(er), no understanding of "the passing of things." Young people think they will be forever young, forever flirtatious, forever attractive. Older people think they will always be at their best (which, of course, they are at right now). The oldest among us do understand -- but pathetically have no response to the process or the result.
I would like to change that in me. I would like to both understand and acknowledge that life is finite, that health is a gift of great value, that death may be an even bigger gift. We should all be learning to live while we are aging. We should all be conscious enough about life to take nothing for granted. We should all be kind enough to tolerate whatever lapses exist in others, and be mindful of the lapses we cannot see in ourselves. And so it goes.
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