What is this ‘old age’ which seems to have insensibly and sensibly crept into the recesses of my life, since about the age of 50? This grey eminence seems to be the result of a combination of factors which I will list below and as follows: a need for testosterone shots to compensate for failing energies back in '99 as I was about to retire; the loss of libido which was as strong as ever until my prostate gland needed reducing in size; putting on weight--some 80 pounds--from my 40s to my 60s; increasing quantities of white-and-grey hair; not feeling the heat of enthusiasm and desire for physical activity that once characterized my life year in and year out due to yet another medication package; the simple incremental advance of late adulthood those years from 60 to 80 according and one model of human development used by psychologists.