Presbyopia (sometimes called “near vision”) is a degeneration in the ability to read due to a loss in elasticity of the crystalline lens. Although the actual science is not fully understood, it happens to everyone and typically kicks in around the age of forty. I suffer from it.
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Gray hair is just the beginning. With middle age comes a graying of opinion, a deviation from the melodramatic, black/white, right/wrong views of youth. An acceptance of disagreement takes over yielding an openness to other’s behaviors and views. Is it experience? Possibly. Is it respect? Maybe. Is it despondence? Likely. But bitching and moaning never solved anything and the gene pool needs creativity as much as it needs conformity. It takes all kinds and there is room for hue too.