Overrated as it is, once experienced, most will love and miss it like a dear old friend. Others who find it not so easy to let go, synonymising the end of their youth with the atrophy of their bodies and withering of their minds and so understandably in the face of this frightful decline of their lives refuse to limit their association with this era to mere wistful reminiscing.
Faced with their mortality they are inclined to hold onto it for as long as they are able to, even if the only way they can involves zealously gripping onto the hand of their blossoming beau or belle, meaningfully whispering into the ear of the unfortunate being who but can’t help but have wanderlust eyes.
An older man is more likely to stay attractive to a younger woman than an older woman is to a younger man. So, why is that then? Surely everything migrates south regardless of your gender? And, yes the female reproductive system does shrivel up to a useless lump (quite rightly so, an 80 year old mother to a new born is odd by anyone’s standards for reasons too many to mention). The male reproductive system stays blissfully unaware of its host’s age and so overcompensating for the fact that its owner is almost a century old becomes highly over active till calamity befalls it, unfair not?
Then again, men do not need to carry a foetus to term nor do they have to go through the pains of childbirth to become a parent, what they do have to do is find an able and willing adult (hopefully) who can overlook Don Juan’s craggy south facing edifice enough to consummate their fragile relationship and inescapably with the help of a tidy little nest egg bring up this fatherless child.
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