How many times, during your working years, have you thought about that wonderful upcoming time in your life when you’ll retire and begin to live the good life? Stop dreaming folks; it’s not going to be the good life you expected. Now you have all day to chase your wife around, but have forgotten why. Oh yes, now you’ve also got time to travel, but a lot of the travel is to the doctors, prostate checks, eye checks, hearing checks, heart checks, and ingrown toenail checks. In between all these is the occasional pleasure trip, tours where the young tour guides make you scramble desperately to catch up to get close enough to hear what the hell they’re talking about. Please note that old ears also don’t work as well as they used to.
Let see what other wonderful things the Golden Years bring us. Many, many night time trips to the bathroom, struggles to get up out of chairs when you’ve sat too long, and frequent heartburn and upset stomachs from years of abuse. Oh yes, and don’t forget the start of some short term memory losses.
As I’m writing this I’ve been trying to think of something positive to include in this little Golden Year observation. I finally realized that I’d forgotten just about the only plus there was when I entered those Golden seventies…………I can now hit from those “Golden” senior tees. They brought my scores back into the eighties after several years of absence.
Hurray, now it’s all worth it!
