This is an excerpt from a Miss Manners column. Her real name
is Judith Martin and I think she said something that needs to
be said. It is as follows:

"It has come to be generally disgraceful, if not disgusting,
to age. The commercial world and the promoters of mental
and physical health bombard us with products and techniques that claim to retard, if not reverse, aging. The implication
is that ignorance or laziness is what keeps us from staying
young,and the elderly have only themselves to blame.

As a result an elaborate system of dissimulation has arisen,
with which people conceal their own ages and reassure one
another of eternal youth. "Oh, I am too young to remember
that!" Failing to observe this convention brings on the
accusation of "You make me feel old."

Power to you Ms. Martin. I am older than dirt and remember
the depression, WWII, the New Deal and other events such as
Sputnik, JFK and the man on the moon. We haven't learned
much because we are still wasting young men and money on
wars instead of spending money on education,eradicating
poverty, encouraging art and music and curing diseases
that destroy the body and mind.

I think you should look as good as you reasonably can and
be as fit as you want to be but there comes a time when
you have to face the fact that you are just old! It is not
your fault.