Freyer article Pollyannish

 I just read and enjoyed Felice Freyer's article " Growing

    Happy " ( Providence Sunday Journal ,Feb. 28 ) . Still it struck me as

    rather Pollyanish : Oh OLD AGE - which a 60 year old Leon Trotsky

    more realistically described as " hideous " at least for the vast

    majority of humanity - can bubble over with joy, and and the ebullience

    of feeling FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD I'm FREE AT LAST !

            If you're an elderly male BLISS is inconceivable unless you're

    LEGALLY MARRIED ! Just forget about any frivolous " fooling around " on

    the brink of the black ABYSS .  Make that date with City Hall right now.

          And at the age of 90 you might find yourself being chased around

    the country by a brutish bounty hunter, hired by LEGAL wife. " Hell

    hath no fury like the woman scorned ! "

            Nature was WISER at the turn of the century when most of us males

    were dropping dead at Bill Clinton's age. Beginning in middle age "life "

    for most males is just a rather disgusting BAD HABIT.

            Very few of human beings get to understand and experience the

    joys of the mind. After the family raising decades , the average DRUDGE,

    hardly knows why he or she is alive.

             Mankind exaggerates its evolutionary distance from the monkeys.

      A bored monkey is a philosopher of his race !