“Jane Miller” - Reflections on the ‘crazy’ age

Growing Old Reconsidered

By Jane Miller

March 9, 2011

http://inthesetimes.com/article/6956/growing_old_reconsidered

I am old and I feel and look old. In addition, I think about being old a good deal of the time; not crossly or sadly, as a rule, but simply as a condition of my days and nights and what’s going on in them. I like being old at least as much as I liked being middle-aged and a good deal more than I liked being young. There are lots of bad things about it, but then there were lots of bad things about being young.

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