I am fortunate to reach here!

Aging, the best perspective at any particular age, is the above one — I find myself fortunate enough to reach this age; I could not have reached here.

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Then, that’s not what aging does to you. It brings in apprehensions associated with each decade or every half-decade, as I am in my fifth one.

The first decade went off as smoothly as I can remember. There was no awareness of age. That decade was more of being where I was without much care. The second decade, as I remember, was a bit different. Teenage years were a bit more dramatic than the first. There were first glimpses of getting old with significant bodily changes, and the mind got more cluttered with thoughts of comparison with the elderly and an understanding of being of certain ways and its trivialities.

The third decade is when most bodily changes I could see happening were added to the task it was put to with pregnancy and related stuff. Although it was put through the most challenging task, it bounced back to its optimal with a bit of care in traditional Ayurveda, which is inane in our culture for a pregnancy-tattered body.

Oh wow, the fourth decade is confusing, to say the least. It sometimes feels youthful, as in the 30s or 20s, but with some slight pains, it reminds you where you will be — the glorious 50s. The body composition could be seen changing the most in this decade, as I can see being at the most fag end of being in it. There is a straightforward addition of particular inches, which comes with the age as they propound, and there is specific muscle sag in areas that you might wanna start hiding or avoid. We know the clock cannot be stopped, which we would like to do if possible. Things get weirder, and you let them be, too; you can set your own rules by now, and you are becoming more of yourself by this age. Finally, I feel I can embrace fitness and movement without measuring the success of it by weight loss. It is measured more by how I feel and how swiftly I can move without pain.

A contemporary — Bryan Johnson- surprised me with his pursuit to live healthier and longer or to be, in his exact words, to become immortal with his methods, as he specifies in this video.

He is the same age as me but says his “age” by parameters is 18. Why would you want that? I amuse. He seems to question a status quo we all have assumed as our reality. We are born, some of us reach later ages, and we perish. Some of us don’t even have the privilege to live in those decades. This seems normal to us, but why is he questioning that? What could be the motivation to have an 18-year-old body at 47? Of course, vitality is higher at that age, and so is stupidity, but yes, I assume only the body organs are 18, and the mind is in the 40s. Wouldn’t that be a confusing state to be? Wouldn’t experience and wisdom gained by this age tell you otherwise to put the body through unnatural ways?

As the wise say, being of a certain age is a privilege, and if you enjoy each decade, you will find that it offers a lot.