The joys and killjoys of growing old!

Dear Vidya
What can I say? You see a bit of your dad in me and a bit of your mum too. That makes me Ammaiyappar! Or Thayumanavar.
I totally agree with you on aging gracefully and I tell that to every old man I meet
There is a tiny resistence brewing to my continued rambles on growing old! These rambles are a kind of soliloquy that I share with you all to keep reminding me of what I should do! Why do you think I am here in this forum? It is my insurance against some accelerated aging! I just cant read a scholarly article on the Early Symptoms of Parkinson's! Nor do I want to carry around a Sugar Monitor. It's all for old men in a hurry to get older. Not for me!
But I'll keep writing about aging until everone starts feeling that the evening of life is the best time to be!
sri

 

Dear Sathya
nadai mella pottaal
pookkalai mugarnthu konde
vaazkayay anubavikkalaam endru..

Nethiyadinga! eppidi azhaga sollipputteenga! naan romba methunga. idukku mela medhuva pona, pinnala varavan idichu thalliduvanga! adan oru bayam. Mathapadi ungala vida yaarunga ivvalo azhaga vishayatha solla mudiyumga?
sri

 

Dear Chithra
How did I miss this post? I dont normally miss anything from my age group! You are absolutely right that all of us in this part of the county are conditioned to think that as we grow older, we are expected to do only certain things and abstain from others! It is a pity that the list of banished items keep increasing as we grow older! The rebels have to be extremely careful to avoid ending up as 'the butt of all jokes'!
I am only endeavoring to bring down the size of the banned items thro my threads
But this mindset is more common in south but if you go up north particularly Punjab and Haryana, the youth are no match for the prowess of the old in any field! The way they gurgle 'sher ka dhoot' would put the timid youth of the South to shame!
But dont worry. I have no intention of stopping my tirade against the indiscriminate increase in the number of activities precluded from the reach of the old!
Sri

 

Hi IN
What is the difference between Indraya Nangai and Netraya Nangai?
Please enlighten me. yes, age is trying to catch up with me without realising that it is running an hopelessly losing race!
Sri

 

Dear Chithra
You have only confirmed my worst fear!
A relationship between a man and woman is neither a race nor a battle for anyone to be declared a winner. An ideal relationship can only be a win-win type. I just fail to understand this obssession with winning in a relationship and I would attribute this obssession as the root cause of all aberrations in a mariage.
This "i am the Winner, Concede your defeat" can be a good line to create a hype in a boxing match but not in a personal life!
I know you will counter me saying that you were mentioning winning in the context of an observation I made in my response to you but if you go back and see, I merely asked for the difference between IN and NN and you let out a battle cry like a horse at the sound of a bugle! It is this obssession about winning that got me recording my views. My only concern is that this obssession with winning should not be the guiding force of any relationship, be it conjugal or just pure friendship!
Sri