I am really confused between the reality of living my age and the general perception about older people. Yesterday, I was with a young women and i pointed out a sport car ( B&W I think it was) which I thought was a good-looking car. Her reaction was ” are you still admiring sports cars” implying that I was too old to keep admiring old cars. I didn’t want to confess to her that I still admire good-looking men!! She would have been aghast. Here I should confess…no, on second thoughts I won’t. That would be too revealing!!!

That’s it. In the afternoon a reporter from the newspapers, who was writing a feature about perceptions about aging and how the general perception of men and women is different, asked me about my views on the subject. I readily agreed with her that it is very different and  that older men have more advantages. But surely, I said, it has also got to do with one’s level of confidence and health.

Now when it comes to the choice of clothes I have a real problem. I certainly don’t want to look like a “mutton dressed as a lamb”.

I wonder if older people experience similar questions about identity as teenagers do ( which really is worrying) or is it just me who has the problem ( which should really worry me).