On Being Old A book of Poetry-Plus (poetry outside the box) A book of Poetry-Plus about being old. What is old? We start getting old the day after we're born; where the process of aging starts. When we're young, we want to be older and when we're older we want to be younger. Are we ever happy where we're at in life? Being old, most of us don't like it, and so we resist it. Does all this resistance get us anywhere? NO So why do we do it? It's best just to accept it as a condition of life. It's a Fact of Life. We can't change it, so why do we waste our life fighting it. Fighting it makes us get older faster and shortens our life, the life we want to hold on to, the life we want to enjoy. Hopefully, this book through humor and insight will help the reader understand that it's OK to be old whether you're five years old or 95 years old."