(Photo of Peter K F Cheung SBS by Dr Wang Ye Aug 7, 2018)
How often do you hear people moaning about getting old? Since my early 40s, I have been inconvenienced by my presbyopia; and ten years later, my white hair bothered my wife, and my floaters, me. Yesterday inside a bank, a receptionist advised me there was a special queue for 65s+!
While travelling three days ago, I felt acute deep pain in the nerve tissues of my right leg. Tissues might have been damaged while I swam butterfly style earlier. Fortunately, the pain went away totally yesterday, and I began to wonder: could shingles have been at work - an old-age symptom.
Inside a train car today, a Mainland Chinese lady with a suitcase kindly offered me her seat. As it was the first time such an offer was made to me, I awkwardly but politely declined. When the seat next to her became vacant, I sat by her and learned about her physio perspective.
Now, I have to accept that I have attained maturity and am getting old. While adapting to my situations and moving on, I would not allow them to impact on my creative mind. Furthermore, I know through bitter experience that only lucky ones can live long, and thus - it is great to be old!