The Seduction Of Death

Sometimes getting old felt like waiting for something to happen around the corner.  Something not good.  Sometimes getting old felt like being in a Stephen King novel and being scared to turn the page.
In his Illuminati vision of the future, the old man could not really see the end, his death on this corporeal sphere.  Secretly had the idea, the young redhead would come home from the hospital and find him appearing asleep in his big leather recliner.  The television turned up loud to a news channel so he wouldn’t miss any craziness.
But he would no longer care.

Television seemed on a loop, Donald Trump haranguing another audience, threatening to carpet bomb old folk’s homes because those geezers serve no useful purpose.

And the elderly have droopy breasts.  Which scored low on the Republican candidate’s Presidential Concepts of Worthiness, the reformed, restructured and privatized Social Security program.

You might not qualify.  Are your boobs perky?

He hoped to go before then.

Jeff Goldblum, who could play the old man in the movie if he were a better actor, had this to say about getting older.  “I like the idea of honoring nature, not masking it.  You know, the flower blooms, the flower dwindles, and that’s what we do.  Enjoy it.  The wilting side of it can be beautiful, too.  You wouldn’t take a flower and do surgery on it or paint it or put a pair of Spanx on it.”

The wilting side of it can be beautiful, too, was just the type of delusion he practiced himself.  The old man liked that nature idea but then Goldblum started getting a little weird there towards the end.

Which seems to be what happens when you age.

 

 

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