You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
I’ve met and become friendly with a few people in recent years, and I’m happy for that.

But I agree that there’s something irreplaceable in those relationships of several decades’ standing.

I’ve lost most of my closest relationships of such a long duration. Most of my favorite people are dead now. These people truly knew me and still wanted me around despite all that.

I’m reminded of Yogi’s observation that you gotta go to other people’s funerals or they won’t go to yours.

 

[tonyb]

I have vivid memories of those in-character cigarette ads -- Jed Clampett and Granny were also avid Winston smokers, and Granny, especially, really puffed on them hard. I thought of those commercials when the actress who played her died of lung cancer. "Star Trek" was sponsored for a while by, I believe, VIceroys, but Gene Roddenberry put his foot down and we were spared the image of Mr. Spock lighting up on the bridge of the Enterprise. …

I looked it up. Irene Ryan, who played Granny, died of brain cancer, a glioblastoma, specifically. Nancy Kulp, who played Miss Jane Hathaway, was also a smoker, and also appeared in some in-character ads for Winston cigarettes, and also died of cancer, but I’ve yet to uncover just what kind of cancer.

 

[Jon Crow]

We’ve discussed before just how silly that notion is. A favorite uncle, in his later years, was fond of saying that. It was apparent he knew that the grim reaper was coming for him in the not-distant future and his way of coping was to deny it.

The last time I talked with him, a matter of weeks before he died, when he was housed in a “care facility,” he said “it could be one year; it could be 50 years.” That was the clearest sign to me that his vascular dementia diagnosis was accurate. He had never had difficulty with arithmetic before. His daughter told me that he had been more or less successfully faking being “okay” for a couple years before his acting skills began failing.

The ravages of advancing years are all too real. It’s clearly not “just a number.”

Or Mick Jaggers saying, your only as old as the girl your feeling haha

 

[GHT]

Your eyesight begins to diminish in old age. There's a good reason for that.
It's your body's way of protecting you from the shock as you walk past a mirror.