On the Topic of Building The Wall

2019

​Here's a couple fun facts about aging as a woman: Your vaginal walls will thin. You will lose your hearing and eyesight (likely simultaneously), such that when you have to insert a pill into your vagina (to "strengthen the wall," combat the irreversible deficit of estrogen), you won't be able to see what you're doing. It may very well be the closest you've come to masturbating in years. As easy as it sounds, there's a 60 percent chance the pill will fall to the floor when you stand up. You will, sacrificing your last shred of dignity, wash it off and insert it again. When it stays in on the third try, at age 75, this will be your biggest victory that weekend. And yet, you will be a bit smug about it.

You will take your wins—because tomorrow will be another round of not remembering if you brushed your teeth, took your insulin or properly counted your pills, all the while leaning into acceptance and world-weary knowledge that your halcyon "Golden Years" are proving to be tarnished, equal parts comedy and tragedy. 

And you will be okay with that as you soldier onward into the indistinct, uncomfortable unknown.