Face to face conversation versus putting ones thoughts out as a blog can define the gulf which lies between us.
Often in conversation the impact of what you say can be misconstrued but equally the image you leave in a blog can take many forms.
Writing about any topic draws your hand and exposes your trend of thought but nearly always that particular trend of thought has many aspects to it and is dependent on many things.
When one writes about the homeless you needn't be homeless yourself to have something to say about what it must be like to be homeless. This is true about virtually any subject and especially so when one associates oneself with the particular as a special case.
Getting old has been a theme of mine for sometime, not necessarily because I am getting old but that the ageing process gives one the perspective of being old.
The age old assumptions of life at a certain period in your life are particularly pertinent when you are living through that period and old age is as fascinating and as relevant as being young.
The object, 'ageing' is a phenomena which is rich in experience and inevitably has its own special downside but to be objective and open about ageing and the end of life is not an exercise in morbid paranoia but a gentle nudge towards reality.
To set down just one avenue of thought is worth while in that it brings to the fore a thought process some would rather not have or if they have it, would rather not share. This is not to say that being interested in what it means to be old means also that you become fixated or even that you display any outward signs of being the person you describe. That person is a representation of not necessarily of even an average or a norm, they may be on the periphery of society but they do exist.
They are a fictional composition but no less real. They are not you or me but could be, you or me and that is the reason I write about them and the phenomena they represent in the society we all wish to acknowledge we belong.
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