Geezer Psychology

  If we walk long enough along our path through the garden of life we attain a status known as geriatric. The world, and how we cope with it, changes over time and many of us resist the changes required of us to maintain the lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed and prefer. We become unable to do things as easily as we once could and must expend extra mental energy to perform tasks that were automatic. What we once did well becomes that which we can do adequately at best. C’est La Vie. As one of those who’s passed the “Welcome to Geezertown” city limit signpost, I can authoritatively warn the whippersnappers of what’s to come and commiserate with my comrades about life in the Blue Hair Lane. Those of us who survive in our newly found aged lifestyle, and even thrive in it, have necessarily adopted a laissez-faire attitude regarding the obstacles thrown in our way. We found early on that complaining about our arms being too short for reading, our bladder being too small for a fu...