Quote:
Originally Posted by dreams
"The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another -- it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time."
"Look, you: When you're twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five or even fifty-five, you can still feel good about your chances to take on the world. When you are sixty-five and your body is looking down the road at imminent physical ruin, these mysterious 'medical, surgical and therapeutic regimens and procedures' begin to sound interesting. Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age.
[....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with."
quoted from Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
I'm loving this book so far.
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Gee. Now I feel a whole lot better about my day...
