You're Old, I'm Old . . . Get Used to It! by Virginia Ironside

Author:Virginia Ironside
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

9. Downsizing

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no wind!

And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one

does without them!

—Paul Claudel, Journal

WHEN YOU GET OLDER everything diminishes. Or should diminish. And it’s rather a nice feeling. Instead of having a desire to conquer empires, you long to reduce yourself and your surroundings. You don’t want to expand, you want to contract. I don’t see it as something depressing. I see reducing as being like something you do to a wine sauce. From being all sloppy and tasteless to start with, after you’ve simmered it for ages, it eventually turns into a delicious, pungent concentrate.

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