Looking to meet some fellow seniors? I’ve found out where they are. Doctors’ offices! For someone who has been generally blessed with good health, I have never spent much time reading magazines in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. However, three out of the five days of this week, that is exactly where I will be. I’m starting to feel that this time of our lives is called our ‘Golden Age’ because we have to become quite malleable.
Doctors are generally very nice, caring people. I enjoy being with them socially. I just can’t believe I’m spending so much time on their examination tables. I know my body is slowly diminishing, but I’m starting to feel that it’s become a spectator sport.
I am not alone.
Most of the inhabitants of the other chairs in these waiting rooms are also filled by my contemporaries. They have a lot of style. More often than not, I will hear a good joke or an intelligent discussion rather than a complaint. Frankly, we are a rather classy group.
Doctors’ offices are one of the few places today where you can have an intelligent conversation about that most incendiary of all current topics, politics. My fellow seniors seem to have sufficient confidence in their own observations and respect for those of others that they can conduct honest and interesting exchanges. I find that very refreshing in our current, vehemently partisan, culture.
So, ‘Hats off to you’ my fellow seniors. I’d rather not play ‘medical object’, but if I have to, I feel privileged to be a member of your group.
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