My friends’ and my parents are dying or going slowly insane – we hold our collective breath as our parents are being scammed across the country by conartists. My mother pays for “annuities that is special for nurses” or “health insurance that only cost $29 a month and she can add my sister with a pre-existing condition” or she stays up until midnight and orders from infomercials chochkis.
We blame our parents for getting old, for growing stupid, and yet we are all headed down the same path at fireball speed. I go downstairs to get my earphones, and spend twenty minutes trying to remember why I am down there and return to my desk with no earphones.
The slow fade of mind.