The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are
Using the enforced idleness that comes after major surgery, Sven Birkerts meditates on how time contracts and dilates and what that means for a sense of self.
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The impulse to cling to youth at all costs, to attempt to preserve your sexual attraction, to see even in middle age a future for yourself and not merely for your children, is a thing of recent growth and has only precariously established itself.
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Every year I gain, I feel closer to my "real" age. Numbers and birthdays don't scare me, like they do my mom, who would prefer we never mention it at all. I hope I get to keep that attitude all the way till the end.
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