Who Is Old, Who Is Young?
Being old or young is not measured by years, you know, but
by one’s own feelings. Were you feeling
as a timid, decrepit old man though you might be a youngster who’s very strong
and healthy, then you’re a very old decrepit man.
Were you feeling as a young healthy, daring man, then
you’re young, even you’re as old as Methusalah, who, were I not mistaken, lived
some nine-hundred years or even you can’t walk anymore and move with a
wheelchair.
I mean, eh ... what I really want to say is: being young is
being capable of loving.
Were there no love, what’s the use of living then? I don’t
want to be born.
So don’t you ever stop loving your husband if you want to
stay as young as ever even in old age, except you very eagerly want to become
an unendurable, insufferable, decrepit, old woman, you little fool. Ha. Ha. So
Opa Johan teased his wife.
May 2013
This is my book. You can read it.
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