Welcome to the Golden Years

Ahhh, the golden years. A time when all the hard backbreaking work is over and it is time to celebrate a life of carefree existence. A time when you no longer have to get up at 5:00 am in the morning and steel yourself for the coming days work. A time when you can sleep until 10:00 am everyday and not feel the least bit guilty. A time when you can have a nap anytime you want, even if you are not that tired.
Yes, the golden years!

It all sounds so wonderful. Even the term itself sounds like it will be the richest time of your life. Golden years. Covered in gold. Money flowing from every pocket, spilling out of your wallet and into things that make your old age exciting!

The Reality

The reality is that everything that glitters is not gold and the same thing holds true of the Golden Years!

When humans reach the age of 30 or so things start going downhill in a biological sense. Cells don't multiply as well as they should, skin starts to lose elasticity and leave wrinkles behind. Metabolism changes and usually slows down along with energy and stamina. All these things happen at a very slow pace and, for the most part, we are unaware of them.
It is only when we are getting into our 60's and 70's do we wake up one morning and look at our wrinkled old face in the mirror that we exclaim, "What the hell is going on with my body!!!"

To us, it seems like yesterday we where out with friends, climbing mountains and sailing the seas, partying all night and dancing to the wee hours of the morning. Time has a way of catching up with us.
The reality is that we are just old and becoming irrelevant.
So here are some of the things you have to get used to when you finally reach those Golden Years.
Distance is measured by how far the next restroom is.
If your teeth don't fly out when you sneeze, chances are you pooped your pants. When you cough you poop your pants. When you laugh your teeth fly out. You never sleep the whole night as your bladder has somehow shrunk and you have to get up for a bathroom break.
You walk into a room to get something but forget what it was when you get there.
You put something down and a minute later you can't find it.
You have a great idea for an article on Steemit, but by the time you reach your computer you have no clue what it was about.

And, oh, yes, did I mention you poop your pants a lot!

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