Is Getting Older Scary?
Written By Peace Eneja While checking my social media status, I stumbled onto a friend’s birthday post that read, “…whoever thinks that getting older is not terrifying should think again, but I guess the most important thing is to live this one time life now that you are still breathing before it vanishes, happy birthday to me”. A couple of days later, I had a chat with a group of friends regarding this and after what I discovered, I thought it will be nice to actually talk about it here on my blog. Is getting older scary? My colleague Al’han often says, “You don’t have forever to be a dump ass” and I totally agree with him. Humans have always been cautious of time, largely because we are mortals, we cannot live forever. Death being an unpredictable, unavoidable and purely-certain-to-happen phenomenon, it is very normal that we try to achieve all that we can within the short time we are alive. Thing is, we are generally afraid of not measuring up, of not...