Eighty is the new 60

[Sympthsical]

5. 80 is 80

Some people handle aging better than others, but not acknowledging there is usually a pretty hefty slow down in energy and acuity is wishful thinking.

This denial of reality is weird.

You know what it reminds me of? Remember how people kept pushing RBG's work out routine? "Oh man, even I couldn't do that!!!!" It was this little old woman lifting tiny weights. Which is good. Exercise at any age is absolutely awesome. But for whatever reason, it had to get hagiographically blown out of all proportion. If you just scanned articles, you'd have thought she was doing Iron Man that year.

Well. She did not do Iron Man that year.

People age, they slow down, their mind isn't always what it used to be. And that's ok! Nature be like that.

But I do not understand this denial. "They're so spry! Aren't they spry? Spry!"

No, they're 80. They look it. They sound it. It's fine. No one needs any 25th Amendment. Republicans gonna Republican. But the answer to that isn't, "Nuh uh. Spry!" because no one believes it.

No one believes it. So, let's clear this affirmation from the calendar. The more people insist the obviously true is not, the more it looks like worrying or hiding something.