The Geezer Time-Space-Speed Continuum

Didn’t things used to go slower in the good old days?

As some of you may have noticed (or not), as the decades go by your body starts to gradually decompose. You move slower, everything hurts, and the lightning fast reflexes you remember from your youth no longer exist. There’s a theory that your brain slows down, too, but I find that hard to believe (although my kids and grandkids often swear that it’s true).

Along with this long term slowing process the passage of time actually accelerates – like your life is in fast forward mode 24/7. And this speeding time gets faster and faster as you get slower and slower. Not fair, I say—but nobody asked me and I’m told that life is NOT actually fair.

My grandkids are eager to get older so they can drive, go to college, move out on their own, etc. For them, a great life requires that they achieve some magic age in life‑‑16 or 18 or 21.

At the same time, us old folks (me, at least) would like to slow or even reverse the passage of time—at least on occasion. In this strange world grandkids grow up too fast, vacations are over too soon, diseases progress much too rapidly, and even hard work is over too quickly (well, maybe not that one). The only slow things in my life are waiting in the doctor’s office, waiting for that social security check, and waiting for daylight so you can get up because you can’t sleep.

But modern science has given us a solution to this knotty and perplexing oddity of advancing age: and I quote from a leading Geriatric Medical Jouronal, “Suck it up and keep on keeping on”!

axman