I don’t want to be reminded how old I am, so when a friend of mine presented me with a replica shirt from the football team we both follow, I was suitably pleased until I looked on the back of it. There was my surname in block capitals and two great big numerals – a six followed by a seven. How could he possibly have thought that I’d want to advertise the fact that I was, indeed, 67 years old?
Well, that’s the aim, anyway. But no matter how much we try to keep active of mind and body, the built-in obsolescence of the human form is an inescapable reality. The physical bits are tedious enough: the nocturnal wee breaks, the creaking joints, the fading eyesight and hearing. But the mental aspects of ageing – the memory lapses, the unfathomable anxiety and the fear of one’s own mortality – are especially depressing.
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Read MoreThe research study from the Weizmann Institute of Science concluded: “The potential rejuvenation of the immune system could help revitalise brain function, with the ultimate ambitious goal of developing an anti-ageing immune therapy.” What this infers is that it’s no longer in the realms of science fiction to believe we can preserve our mental faculties and, as long as we look after our bodies – taking exercise and eating and sleeping well – we can stay younger for longer.
For the individual, it may seem like a hugely positive development, but there is nothing that can be done, eventually, to stop the physical ravages of age. It’s worth recalling the words attributed to the American composer Eubie Blake, who, after a lifetime of drinking and smoking, died at the age of 96. “If I had known I was going to live this long,” he said, “I’d have taken better care of myself.”
Bob Dylan articulated the ambition of longevity best. “May your hands always be busy / May your feet always be swift… May you stay forever young.” He released this in 1974, when he was only 29 years old. I wonder what he thinks now.
Like him, I would like my hands always to be busy, and my feet always to be swift. But we should know that, whatever miracles medical science might promise, we are not going to stay forever young. The most important thing is that we shouldn’t die trying.
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