On Conscious Aging

These musing from Sherry Ruth Anderson (Cultural Creatives, The Feminine Face of God) are so worth reading. Please check out Old Age is Boring part 1: Another Country, A Different Game

I have been assiduously avoiding thinking about my lonely, boring grandparents for weeks now. And what I thought instead was this: I’m bored. I’m tired of writing about getting old. Whatever made me think that this was a grand adventure, a new country to be discovered? There is so much else to do in my life right now. Old age is boring.

In the meantime, shadowy figures have been lining up on my front porch. They aren’t hysterics, these visitors. They are patient, not ringing the doorbell or knocking loudly on the door. They’re standing quietly with a kind of restrained intensity, like mourners who manage to hold their grief until the appropriate time in the funeral service.

I sigh and go to the door. I guess you’re here about the losses, I say. Come on in.