Senior Moments

Call it senior moments, brain fade, or mental glitches, but please don't call it senility. It's bad enough that I have to sit back and watch my body deteriorate right in front of my bifocaled eyes, but when my brain says things like,"What appointment?" "I don't have a clue." and "Sorry. I didn't realize I'd told your friends that already, six times," I have to admit that I'm a little more than concerned. I'm scared.

Every day new anti-aging products become available for those among us who are vain and aesthetic-conscious. From creams to scalpels, the options to remain young on the outside are limitless.  But what about the brain? Did you know that the human brain loses about 9,000 neurons a day? Each neuron has an entourage of ten to twenty assistants. They kick the bucket too. Along with the thousands of cells dying each day, there are these vicious little radicals--they're free but who would want them?--that fly around inside our heads destroying anything they hit. And we can't ignore the tangles, plaque, and shrinkage.

So why am I telling you this, you ask? You, who are young and aesthetically pleasing. You, who can read a book and remember every detail in it one year later. You, who still have 99.9 billion healthy and fully-functioning brain cells. You, with no tangles, plague, or shrinkage. You, who ask me to explain myself and hold me accountable for every single slip up my brain makes. You, who think you'll never have a senior moment or brain fade or mental glitch. So why am I telling you this, you ask?

Uhhhhhum...

I don't have a clue.