This One Goes Out To Our Old Buddy Steve Forester!
“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.”
by Tom Furman
This line is spoken by Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg (1981).
When Marion (Karen Allen) says to Indiana Jones, “You’re not the man I knew ten years ago,” he responds with his iconic charming/patronizing way of speaking to women: “It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.” — Shmoop.com
Indeed, wear and tear may not stay neck and neck with the clock and calendar. Certainly physicians, particularly orthopedic surgeons would love us to die with pristine joints, but except for living in a laboratory, it’s not going to happen. If one chooses an active life, it involves calculated and uncalculated risks. To “mansplain”, let’s just say at times, “hold my beer” carries more weight than peer review.
While the disease known as aging steals strength, speed, size and mobility, mistakes and accidents can really throw up a road block. Remember aging injures, but injury also ages. Cardiovascular fitness, what we used to call, “wind”, drops off with neglect, weight gain and certainly smoking. We can’t do a lot about the passage of time and the biological clock, but we can avoid accidents, train with brains and not get sloppy about our health.
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