old age is a ghost

old age is a ghost

fiction
edward w pritchard

Old age is being a ghost while you are still alive; at least alive sort of.  Everyone has heard of the old ghost in the machine but until you endure old age yourself you cannot imagine being nearly invisible  most of the time to most of the people about you. One of the reasons the young don't like the old and merely see through them is the elderly don't follow the mandatory requirement of being absolutely irresistible looking in what ever scenario they find themselves occupying. Old people just be they don't worry about what they are becoming anymore.

Where goes thou? Old age is a ghost.

On a practical note when you are a ghost it's a good time to be a voyeur in the good sense of that term. You can watch and judge because no one notices a ghost and who cares what you think anyway.