From an old coot...

Recently read a short blog called the Rant, and the author posted a few ageist remarks denigrating old people. You can read it HERE. Most of us here at The Crazy are what you might call old. It's true, this blog is mostly written by a few crotchety old farts who soon might be seen sitting around the nursing home waiting for the grim reaper to come calling. Getting older is hard to describe to someone who hasn't yet had the advantage of our years of listening to young folks whine about how the world is treating them unfairly. But for all of us at some point in our lives, the future is going to become shorter than the past. Unfortunately for this writer that point has probably long passed. And not to put too fine a point on it, we think it's a good thing. We have seen many of this countries young cutting down the oldsters (we refuse to use the word elderly) as if the young had some sort of magic potion to stem the onslaught of time. And honestly there have been some amazing strides in scientific research on the aging process. But inevitably, time will circle these young folks like a pack of ravening wolves. And one by one, injury by injury they will be brought down. Will they remember the folly of their own youth, when they felt themselves to be immortal? Will they stop for one moment while viewing the Dorian Gray like dissolution of themselves in the mirror and remember when one of we ancient heralds trumpeted "where we are now, you soon will be!"? Probably not, Youth is wasted on the young. Just a short note to make a point, or maybe just to write this down before the Alzheimers takes us. Ciao for now.