MyNDTALK - The Beginning of the End? The End of the Beginning? - Ian Brown
This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men." As Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a certain social invisibility—and yet, it troubled him that many people think of sixty as "old," because he rarely felt older than at forty.