Just like (the older) GEN.*
So much is written about the differing generations and the impact each has on how society and the workplace are affected.
What we don’t always remember are the Agers—those who reach a certain moment in their lives where changes accelerate past their understanding of what all the 'mones and groans around them are really about.
Yep, it’s hormones—and how deadly they can be.
If this sounds familiar, it should!
Moans and groans are what the body throws at our brains while our hormones make the easy into nearly impossible.
Blood pressure, temperament, and the will to keep going spike as often as the Stock Market.
No real reason per se, but enough to remind us how fragile we really are.
Challenging that 30-step climb pumps the adrenaline into a heart-stopping, breathless oops.
Too much sugar, salt, or life—whatever—everything is an exaggeration.
Yet the pursuit of survival extends to marathons in waiting rooms, long queues for special discount shows, and easily faded hearing-aid batteries leading to missteps once thought unheard of just a few years back.
Still, we wallow in past dreams, past memories of almost impossible-sounding experiences—of a life lived the best way possible.
And those hormones keep kicking in. One day it’s great. The next, not so much. Hot and cold flushes trigger more wardrobe changes than the latest stage show we missed—because we were too tired to go.
Getting up and going to bed seem to melt into each other, and raucous parties are more a hindrance than a help.
Silence is golden—until the grandkids arrive. It might be only a fleeting moment, but it’s still a reminder of what we no longer are.
But don’t knock it.
For those of us who have reached this point—we are the privileged. The reference point these other Agers might someday aspire to be.
Cheers,
—Fogy
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