Old

old.md

Once, when we're young, we realize that we're all mortals. It's a shock, it's hard to process, suddenly our world is never going to be the same. But we get over it, and through most of our growth and teenage years we completely forget about our ill fate. We live like there's no tomorrow. In our 30s, as our growth comes to an all-time high, we are faced with our mortality once again. The one we had forgotten about all these years. The bad news we pretended didn't exist. Now, we realize that it's not going to be sudden. Sudden would be good, as we would barely have time to notice. Instead, our fall will take time, and as time flows it'll take away more and more of our features. This slow process will be painful, omnipresent, as we grow in our older years. From that point on, each parts that life will remove from us will be felt. The only escape is to live in the present, and practice gratefulness for the time that we still have and for what's left of the body and mind that life hasn't taken away, yet. Perhaps from time to time we'll forget that we're going down hill, but the next mishap will remind us of what's happening, and once again we'll have to think to live in the present.