Why Age?

What is Ageing?

“Every man desires to live long;
But no man would be old”

Jonathon Swift 1667-1745

Ageing is more than the latest grey hairs and wrinkles that confront us in the mirror in the morning. Each of us has a unique pattern of change that the accumulating years show on our faces and bodies.

Ironically for Jonathon Swift, the brilliant satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, his decay was mental. The sharpest wit of his age suffered from Meniere’s disease, characterised by vertigo and deafness, and predicted his own descent into dementia when observing, with poet Edward Young, a tree that was dying back from its crown.
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Tension Rising

“Grow old along with me,
The best is yet to be.”

Elizabeth Barret Browning

“Just relax.”

I could feel my tension rising as the doctor pumped up the blood pressure cuff and it tightened on my arm. I am a personal trainer and a bad reading could be embarrassing.

This was very bad timing - my first visit to the doctor in over ten years - and it had to follow a traditional Portuguese barbeque the night before. I could see the fat glistening on those chunks of grilled chorizo as I pulled them off the skewer. And washed them down with three or four, or was it five? beers.

“Very good. One twenty over sixty five.”
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