Years go by, 
And words entwine: 
So we must accept 
Our own 

Decline

Acceptance of the limitations that come with aging is not a particularly easy skill to master; however, life tends to leave us with few other choices. One of those few is “raging and storming”, which, while entertaining, has limited value in actually changing anything.

I myself prefer “bitching and moaning”, which is equally useless.

Now we humans love secrets, and we seek them everywhere. Many of us think there is a secret to never getting old, never being in decline, never having to deal with new limitations. And we look for the secret. And we spend hours of time and as much money as we can muster chasing the secret. Which turns out to be a chimera.

chi·me·ra

/kīˈmirə,kəˈmirə/

noun

… a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.

From the Oxford Dictionary

Chasing after impossible to achieve things is a bit of a hobby with me. And I hear it is good to have hobbies as you age. So learning to accept aging by refusing to accept aging seems to be my current path.

Sigh.

Well, it isn’t the last self-contradictory cycle I’ll find myself in, I’m sure.