Is LOVE defined by & built on the popularly misconceived idea that when you lose your looks, hair, your sexual prowess you get discarded? That when you get to the number 64 in chronological age you become upgraded for a newer model, one who can perform better with added features?
When you can't perform as well as when you were 24, you are ditched for an upgraded model? The trend seems to point to that.
No one wants to feel left out, to lose out, to appear as a 'loser' - in the unending chase for the latest model or the most up-to-date, beta-most gadget, instrument, or even a life partner. Life has become a test an achievement centered process.
Even in relationships, matters of the heart, where values long held as the gold standard i.e. *LOVE does not give a hoot for looks, wealth, health, sexual prowess (especially), religious affiliations etc. the change is evident.
*LOVE, purely & simply was & should be founded on: "Come what may, hell or high waters, we stick together" a value slowly, surely being eroded & replaced by the trending concept of get the latest - upgrade to the beta-most version, the functionally best.
Which brings up the other interesting concept of holy matrimony:
*In the first place is it Holy?
*Is it a one partner thing?
*Is it life long i.e. "till death do us part"?
And *Is it between 2 different sexual genders?
John Lennon may not be the originator of the concept of a love which could surmount time and its degenerative effects on the human faculties but his song was catchy, tickling youths of that era & enriched the songster no end. Of course the other nobler purpose (or so you say) was a human rights, civil rights, love rights activism. Romanticism at its peak!
The song more positively should be how one at 64, DESPITE the ravages of Time could endear oneself & continue to be easily lovable --
even if the hair is gone, even if there is ED, even if hearing is muted, even if sight grows dim, even if looks have gone …the 64'sters could in more ways than one endear, enrich, retain the relationship between two consenting LOVING adults -senior vintage notwithstanding.
If the original basis on which the union was founded was on firm footings & NOT transient good looks, fluctuating wealth or frivolous sexual athleticism come 64 , 84, hell or high waters it endures..
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