Will You Join me in the Quest for A Good Old Age??

 

Dear friend, 

and I am hopeful that I am allowed to call you "friend" - after a while, when we walked together entering "The Other Country" - exploring Old Age" and exchanging our impressions and hopes and defeats and how we overcome them. I have the feeling that we might need some friends there...

Living in denial is no option for getting on in years. 

Believe me: I tried. 

For a while I quite successfully quoted Oscar Wilde: "One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything." 

So: I won't tell you my age - and I won't tell you everything. 

I suspect that "everything" might be heavy stuff in Old Age - and I am NOT a member of the group "Everything was better in the old days", and you might notice that I silently elope when the conversation turns to diseases, maladies and illnesses. Of course maladies might rear their ugly head just around the corner - BUT I come from the Hanseatic city Bremen, where you wear  a "stiff upper lip" and don't complain (too much) and in Bremen (as Hamburg) people are very British. At the Bremer Holler Sea at the beautiful and very British Parkhotel Bremen, you can admire a hero: young Siegfried, the Dragonslayer, here at work: 

From the Nibelung Saga you might remember that a little misfortune happened when he bathed in the blood of the dragon - no-one I know is totally invulnerable, not even him... And I speak of him because that reminds me of Old Age: vulnerability at some points you never thought of...

I am very curious to find out who will join me in my quest, and will read and answer your comments diligently - your feedback is so important!