TRUTH: you have a greater experience of living as you get older. In all respects the longer you have lived, the more tuned your life is to knowing how to live. Living is a learned skill. I was one of the lucky ones. I was raised by a preacher and a preacher’s wife, and they lived in the country and hiked mountains. God, gardens, and mountains are the greatest teachers we can have. Here is an example. My lover’s body is 71 years old. It is the essence of the beauty of what 71 years can create of a human body. What most will see as aged, I can see as exquisite loveliness. My eyes are 66-year-old eyes and allow me a greater experience of seeing than say the weaker eyes of a 24-year-old. It is painfully meaningful the unadulterated life of becoming ancient. It is an adequate preparatory for eternal life.
PS: I often think of the ruins of antiquity as more beautiful than the actual architectural structures. Like a dead branch that has spent 50 years in a river washed up on shore a beauty worthy of the living branch. So, my lover's 71-year-old body is the only true visual worthy of the truth of the beauty of the human body.
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