“You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” Maurice Chevalier
The word “equality” has been bandied about for a very long time, but this very notion of equality is total non-sense. A doobie inspired utopian dream perpetuated by demagogues and unrepentant leftists.
Equality has a nice ring, but it is totally unrealizable.
Inequality starts the minute the baby is ejected from its mother’s womb, at the very beginning of a long-distance race called “life”.
Some children are born with natural physical attributes that will give them a head start. A baby might have more hair, weigh more, be cuter, have beautiful eyes, etc. and this initial disparity with his peers will increase with age and give him/her an unfair advantage.
Statistics bear the fact that attractive people are treated differently than average looking or shorter individuals. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
There has never been and there will never be “equality”… except maybe later in life when the age factor enters the equation. For age is the ultimate equalizer.
Rich, poor, handsome, ugly, short, tall… we will all age the same way (equally), at the same speed.
In this field, a rich person will not age slower than the average Joe and vice-versa. No matter how much money you have, Father Time cannot be bribed.
Most everybody agrees that getting old sucks (there ought to be legislation against it), but it does not mean that you should give up on life after a fortune teller offers to read your face.
To paraphrase Judith Viorst,
“Getting old is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
There is still plenty that you can enjoy when you become a certified “old-timer” for age is often a state of mind.
The secret of happiness is to laugh a lot, drink a little and to always have something to look forward to.
So instead of watching reruns of “I love Lucy” pull out your social calendar, and plan some celebration. Not a meaningful event in a distant future, but something of little importance that will happen before long.
Here’s to staying positive and testing negative!
Alain