Here is the thing
about old age…
You are such a bore.
Not so much to others,
if you can ever find new
ears
to listen,
but to yourself,
because you have no new
stories.
You’re heard them all
before
so many times.
Now all that is new
is depressing…
some new symptom
some new medicine
some new obit.
That’s why our stories
sound so outlandish,
unbelievable.
We are not trying to
deceive.
We just don’t want to bore
ourselves.
If you happen to listen
as we talk…
well, that’s on you.
John Robert McFarland
“In old age, all we ask is
to continue to be the authors of our own stories.” Atul Gawande, Being Mortal
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