Since being addressed in that fashion about a week ago, my brain and ego have been in a battle. My brain no sooner says "Face it, I am old", before my ego says "But I don't feel old."
Brain: "I'll be seventy in less than three months - that's old." Seconds later, the ego (via Hallmark) chimes in: "Seventy is just a number."
Ego: "I'll trim or get rid of the white beard." Brain: "My hair is almost as white."
Brain: "Who cares how old people think I look?" Ego (Buddhist readers, mea culpa): "I do."
Ego: "What a rude thing for a stranger to say to me." Brain: "Why the thin skin? Grow up!"
Brain (via every self-help book ever published): "Every day upright beats the alternative." Ego: "Yeah, but …"
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