Getting old sucks - try listening for a change

“You have no fucking idea what it’s like to be old. You want me to act chipper and positive. Well fuck that. You have no clue. When something hurts for you, you figure it’ll go away. For me, it’s just an add-on to all the other pain. None of it stops. Ever.

“You tell me to think of something that I’d enjoy doing. Like watching TV? The shows worth watching are on too late. Even if I tried, I’d just fall asleep two minutes into them. I just get bored anyway. I get bored with everything now.

“For you, life is just cool. I mean, you work, and maybe you complain, but believe me, it’s nowhere near as bad as getting old.

“For you, if you get the flu, you know you’re going to feel like total shit for a week. Then maybe another week, and you feel like crap. But after that, you forget all about it. It’s gone. You’re bouncing around like it never even happened. But suppose the worst day with the flu, when you couldn’t even get the fuck out of bed, was the best you were ever going to feel for the rest of your life? Then you’d start to fucking understand.

“You got upset when I told the doctor for my living will, ‘If I have a hangnail, do not resuscitate.’ You think that as long as I haven’t stopped breathing, I should keep on being. I shouldn’t ‘lose hope.’

“Are you fucking insane?”