JUST CONTEMPLATING - ON SIGNS OF GROWING OLD. PART 1.

Like all living things, creatures, if you like, us humans are born as vulnerable infants who must be cared for and protected until we are able to fend for ourselves, as ti were. 

And so it is given to us, according to our fate, to have a lifespan between our birth and our point of departure from the Good Planet Earth. 

With some of us being blessed and others being cursed to live to a comparatively old age.  

While other, according to the adventures and misadventures or fortunes and misfortunes which we are fated to experience. 

Are blessed or cursed to fall, apparently prematurely, along the way, without attaining 'a good old age.'

So, what are or can be the signs of us humans growing into attaining old age? Well, there are the usual physical and physiological ones. 

Such as our skin becoming tout and losing its elasticity and suppleness. As skin cells reduce their pace of replacing themselves, or, as seems to be the case, no longer exchange new for old, but rather, older for old. 

Or like for like. It is at times, at that stage of life that us humans are caused to acknowledge that we, that such and such a person is really getting old. 

It is at such a stage of life when we are more emphatically reminded of our mortality and of our imminent and relentless progression towards the cliff of destiny. 

To be continued!