New York Times Opinion
Getting old is no joke. It just sometimes looks funny, says Roger Rosenblatt, who recently turned 83. Take, for example, getting out of a taxi: “What you don’t want to do is get your left foot caught under the front right seat before you try to swing your right foot toward the door; otherwise, you’ll topple over while attempting to pay the fare, possibly injuring your ankle, and causing the maneuver to go even more slowly. If you make it past the taxi door, there is still the one-foot jump to the street. You’re old. You could fall. Happens all the time.” Twenty-five years ago, Roger wrote a book called “Rules for Aging.” The first rule? “No one is thinking about you,” he says. When you get old, “you disappear from the culture, or rather, it disappears from you,” Roger observes. “You are Rip Van Winkle without having fallen asleep.” #aginggracefully #gettingold #nytopinion
