Every single day we get older, and we all know that, but it is only when parts of your body start failing you, that you really realise how quickly it is happening!  About a year ago I got reading glasses, just to help me read certain things.  

I was told that approximately every year after that you would need stronger glasses and while I have not needed new glasses yet, that time is coming.  What I have found, while I generally have not worn glasses while doing my work, is that I am now in a situation where most of what appears on paper before my eyes is partially blurred, for most of the day and certainly at night!  One gets to a situation where, and it is nothing to do with ego, but just the practicality of running around with different pairs of glasses, that one needs to start wearing them!  That of course is the least of one’s concerns, because if I listen to most people older than me, the dramas they are having with their teeth, not to mention the expense, is something that I am certainly not looking forward to!  It is amazing that we have to spend our whole lives working so that in our retirement when our bodies are failing, we can spend all that money on medical assistance!  It is a pity that life does not work the other way around – that you could retire to have your youth again having spent all that time when your body is failing you, and you are old and wrinkly, sitting in an office doing work!