It’s what you DON’T talk about that is the most important part of the conversation.
I don’t talk — even to myself — about aging. I actively reject the topic and the implications.
It is a frantic refusal to look at truth.
Here is a Tweet from 4/8/24:
It’s never what you see. It’s what you’re unwilling to see. It’s what you refuse to see that sees everything.
Paul Portesi
But he has lots of variations on that idea.