At Age 74- What Has Happened to Me?

I read a NY Times op ed piece yesterday about aging, the author feeling uncomfortable as the oldest person in the room. I wondered, “What has changed for me?”

For most of my life I have done enough to get what I wanted. No more, no less.

This means that I have watched a lot of football games, spent time in class and in travel, and completely indulged and overindulged my passions of the moment. Those passions have included accumulating wealth, finding intimacy, and in the words of e. e. cumm...