The last lap

I read with interest on this article which talks about the process of getting old.

Nobody wants to grow old but we have little choice in the matter. Everyone who lives life to its full term must eventually reach old age.

So, in the first place, old age is said to withdraw us from active employment

In the second place, old age is said to enfeeble the body

In the third place, old age is said to deprive us of nearly all physical pleasures. Here, Cicero has in mind the 'gaiety of the theatre, the luxury of feasts and the caresses of a mistress'. In other words, the sensual pleasures of wine, women and song.

Finally, in Cicero's words: 'There remains the fourth reason, which more than anything else appears to torment men of my age and keep them in a flutter - the nearness of death."
This fear of death is twofold: First, there is the dread of extinction; and then there is the dread of the actual process of dying. The older we get, the more present and real these worries can become.

I am not sure if i am a genius, cause i already knew the fourth reason long before i saw this article. I am such a clever girl.