On Aging

We start out this life at a great disadvantage with the rest of the human race. We start out as two cells desperately looking for each other. Finally,we find ourselves. We grow within the Love of our mothers and we love ourselves. But then our whole world collapses around us and we must escape our meditation and flee to the unknown. Our greatest disadvantage is not that we are small. It is not that we cannot fend for ourselves. No, Our greatest obstacle is that we must learn to trust the untrustworthy. We must learn to love the unlovable. We must give our lives over and believe that our families will rise to the task. The rest of the aged human race does not have this need. They grow and forget what they learned. Until time finds them at last and they are returned to their humble state. Their disadvantage is greater still. They know how untrustworthy and how unlovable they, themselves are. They must humble themselves and believe that someone will come to their aid.