Problem here is the perspective. It takes age to recognize when a battle is due, and youth to stand up to it. Considering the many problems we now face, which of them would I take on if I were younger? All are significant and most appear to be getting worse.
“A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.” Groucho Marx
“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.” Douglas MacArthur
“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
“A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.”
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx
the lost wizard over 5 years ago
Instead we get the Dark Ages.
P51Strega over 5 years ago
Since middle age I’ve had a renaissance of hair growth (in my ears) and a renaissance of circumferential growth. Not the kinds of rebirth I was after.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Problem here is the perspective. It takes age to recognize when a battle is due, and youth to stand up to it. Considering the many problems we now face, which of them would I take on if I were younger? All are significant and most appear to be getting worse.
mattro65 over 5 years ago
Having my children in my ’50s was a sort of renaissance for me. It was also a foreshadowing of no relaxing until my ’80s.
Yakety Sax over 5 years ago
“A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.” Groucho Marx
“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.” Douglas MacArthur
“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
“A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.”
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx
COL Crash over 5 years ago
If enough people finally get feed up with the BS we can move into a new renaissance that will make that one of the look like baby steps.
mourdac Premium Member over 5 years ago
But, they called the Golden Years. How could they be bad?
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 5 years ago
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It’s called the Dark Ages.
And there are people in the USA today who can hardly wait to try it again.