Pets Without a Purpose

“Age is rarely kind to anyone. Nothing one can do about it. One just has to get on with it.”

“The Crown,” Netflix

The scene as Queen Elizabeth looking at a postage stamp with her image on it. She is an older Queen and looks at it and makes this remark.

But it’s true, not just simply better appearance but our ability to navigate in the world

Where once we were athletes, pains are now more debilitating.

Where once we could pull all-nighters, now we must nap.

Where once we would never capitulate, now it is our first choice, our will weakened.

We sleep like babies, making every few hours to relieve ourselves.

We start to notice the stories about people dying and noticing that our agent theirs are only a few years apart . . . Or that they are younger by only a few years.

We start to wonder what people will say about us or if they will have anything to say about us when we are gone.

Certainly, professionally, we have seen countless people leave our firms and within a short time, people will stop knowing who they are, the stories about them will cease and they will wither away into oblivion.