A Minor Disturbance.

It didn’t fail to escape my notice while I was in the urology ward at the hospital that nearly all the other patients were men older than me, in most cases substantially older. It struck me that urology is largely the preserve of elderly men, and that disturbed me because I don’t consider myself to be in that category yet.

So then I took to considering whether my presence there was an indication of premature ageing, or whether it was simply due to my being as precocious as I’ve always been. I concluded that it brought me back to my old favourite dictum: perception is the whole of the life experience and left it at that.