Old Age, From Youth's Narrow Prism--NY Times

When we think of aging, we're probably all trying to delay the inevidible and find our fountain, but this article from the NY Times last week gives a positive and less appreciated perspective on aging: becoming at peace with loss of loved ones and even one's own death, new-found wisdom, new boyfriends/girlfriends and of course, BINGO!

(final paragraph excerpt) In the end, there is a cost to our myopic view of aging. We imagine the pains of late-life ailments but not the joys of new pursuits; we recoil at the losses and loneliness and fail to embrace the wisdom and meaning that only age can bring. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow captured the sentiment well:

For age is opportunity no less

Than youth itself, though in another dress,

And as the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02case.html?scp=9&sq=aging&st=cse