Ahhhh, you ain’t old yet. I got tennis shoes older than you. Literally. I still have a pair of original Converse tennis shoes I bought when I was playing basketball in high school back in the 1970s. Why I still have them, I don’t know. But they are still in my closet along with a slide rule I used for math classes.

That’s a good indication of old age. Having things and memories that were once commonplace, but are now totally obsolete.

You have a great sentiment that I whole heartedly agree with.

There is just one problem I see: the word “do.”

Everyone wants to bitch, piss, and moan. But, very, very few are willing to “do” anything meaningful about the need for “do” in their community. It’s always someone else’s job or I don’t have time or I could never do that.

I’m an old boomer now. I’ve spent my time “doing” things for my community because those things needed to be done and no other people wanted to do them. I just want Millennials, GenX, and GenY or Z step into these things and bring their skills and perspectives to our community. We need them. And I just want to finish the remaining 10 years or so of my life and fade quietly away. But that hasn’t happened yet, I have a Township Board meeting this Thursday evening…

Get used to it. No generation seems to understand that they too will grow old and be reviled by the next generations. It has ever been so.

Grandpa Simpson was always right about “It.” We once had “It”, then we lost “It”, and now we can’t even remember what “It” was.

***This response was helpfully generated by ChatKitty^tm my very old Orange Boomer Kitty Cat.

I attended an EMS conference years ago when I was a medic. One of the speakers, a well known ER doctor at the time stated that,

“No matter how smart we think we are and how talented we think we are. Modern medicine still comes down to one thing-- keeping the patient amused while waiting for nature to take it’s course.”

Modern medicine IS amazing. The changes I saw as a lowly medic for nearly 20 years still blow me away. But at the very base level, it still comes down to that. This is why it’s not called “does medicine” instead it’s called “practice medicine.”

Not with my tinnitus, which I’ve had to live with since I was about 5 years old.