'It's not death that's the worrying thing about a second Biden term. It's the dwindling capacities that go with aging.'
Hate to drag you from leftover turkeys back into the world of politics , but the question is growing louder about whether Joe Biden should run again for president.
Joe Biden could easily make it until 86, when he'd conclude his second term. After all, it's now thought a bit disappointing if a person dies before 85. Yet most of the time I forget my age. The other day after lunch with some of my graduate students, I caught our reflection in a store window and for an instant wondered about the identity of that little old man in our midst.
You'd think that the sheer market power of 60 million boomers losing their hearing would be enough to generate at least one set of quiet restaurants. But no—restaurants seem to be loud as ever. Getting louder, in fact. I'm told that after the age of 60, one loses half an inch of height every five years. This doesn't appear to be a problem for Biden but it presents a challenge for me, considering that at my zenith I didn't quite make it to five feet. If I live as long as my father did, I may vanish.
Cicero claimed"older people who are reasonable, good-tempered, and gracious bear aging well. Those who are mean-spirited and irritable will be unhappy at every stage of their lives." Easy for Cicero to say. He was forced into exile and murdered at the age of 63, his decapitated head and right hand hung up in the Forum by order of the notoriously mean-spirited and irritable Marcus Antonius.
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