Thoughts on aging...

It is bitterly cold days like today that make me feel old. I used to laugh at the term "I feel it in my bones". The truth is that as I have gotten older I really do feel things in my bones. This is especially true since breaking my leg last year. I sometimes wonder if this is how I feel at 40 year of age what life will be like in another 10 years? I am trying my best to keep in shape and stay strong but I still feel my age on days. I hope to age gracefully and not get to the point where I am a tired old man. I would like to think that my biceps will still be muscular and I won't need to remove tattoos from them because they are sagging. All I can think about is the stories my mother-in-law tells about people in her nursing home with tattoos that are unrecognizable. These are people who have lost muscle tone and there is nothing supporting their tattoos and the area is just a bunch of inked and sagging flesh. I don't want to be that person.