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YOU’RE NOT OLD, YOU’RE JUST PITTED: A FEEL GOOD GUIDE TO AGING

A guide to feeling good about aging, includes anecdotes, statements, sardonic observations. My new book is a feel-good book for seniors. I decided to write this book because I just turned 70 years old, and long before never in my wildest imagination did I ever envision that I would be 70. I decided that a self-help book for senior citizens to make them feel better about themselves is in order because there is a lot of negativity about being “old.” Younger people do put-downs and derisively call us “grandpa” or “grandma” even though they are of no relation. Ageism, like racism and sexism, is a reality. In this book I use humor to poke fun at the ways our body changes and the way we look as we age, the aches and the pains we get. I talk about how as a tribal society we segregate out seniors into rest homes and disregard the wisdom they have learned and the advice they can offer. I talk about the concept of retirement and about how one views his own life, the fallacy and stupidity of imagining yourself a loser (what is winning)? I talk about the pain of past troubles with relatives and the mistakes of fixating on the bad, ignoring the good. There’s plenty of oddities thrown in, the bizarre, like studying feces in the toilet bowl, or feeling your private parts to see if any change has occurred (done with humor), fear of change itself, or of having to yell to communicate with a spouse. I talk about how as a senior you can feel better by recounting the disasters, the figurative rapids ride of youth with its wild passions, stupidities and crushing disappointments. How you learn to enjoy the equally figurative placid lake (instead of rapids) of being older, of being who you are right now. I use jokes, humor and irony throughout. Most of the jokes are my own. A few are from comedians like Rodney Dangerfield, a master of self-disparagement. If we can learn to laugh at ourselves, the put-downs from others and those we inflict on ourselves hurt a little less. I am not a doctor; clinician, psychiatrist, therapist and I make no pretense to be. I give no medical or psychological advice. I am simply a humorist who attempts to use common sense to show that if you’re my age, you should be proud of who you are and what you’ve done. Hopefully you can laugh at the mistakes and the debacles of the past. If I can make you chuckle, I’ve won.