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December 03, 2003
Some thoughts on getting older
A friend and colleague in South Africa has recently sent me this amusing preces on the aging process. I wonder who he could possibly mean - after all he's only a year younger than I am!
GROWING OLD
1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while
you're down there.
4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking
chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers
to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.
I think I'll stay with the mandatory bit, growing up is such a bore.
Posted by The Gray Monk at December 3, 2003 11:58 AM
Comments
Here - send this one to your colleague :-)
Posted by: cindy at December 4, 2003 04:33 AM
Right on! I think I want to join that movement as well! I have had it up to wherever with having to carry the responsibilities of adulthood - time to chill. Six seems about right! Thanks Cyn!
Posted by: The Gray Monk at December 4, 2003 11:23 AM
Just read your bit on midget submarines. Minor correction; the Takao was sunk in Singapore harbour 31-July-1945. At least one of the chaps involved is still alive, his picture on http://RossSea.info/geology.html
Cheers.
Posted by: Derek at January 21, 2004 11:37 AM