Yes, Readers,
It is all about our minds. Start with how we perceive reality and how we envision our future. I am now what once was considered very old age (especially with respect to sex), and yet aside from some accumulated scars and chronic pesky pain here and there, I don't feel much different from ten, twenty, or even thirty years ago. My libido bump was only a matter of readjusting my anti-depressant medication, so now I have similar arousal and desire that I have had almost all my life. Perhaps at least for the last thirty years. (Chuckle) I can remember believing people over fifty indeed live sexless lives.
What is important I have discovered? How we think and what we believe. In the end, that is what the quality of our lives becomes. I am Challenged significantly by conflict with desire and conventional commitment, but I ain't dead yet. Somehow, despite tending to live with depression and now with a controlled manic side to my bipolar diagnosis (and still can remain creative, something I hadn't expected), I have discovered profound thoughts about sex and our human nature.
We all seem to require regular sexual activities at all ages, even if modified or lessened by age-related factors. The connection between love and sexual relations is intertwined into our very being. So now I can accept the idea that people in their 80s and 90s want and enjoy sexual activities period (few caveats).
Yes, my wife's severe cognitive disease is an extreme conflict in my life, yet a flicker of optimism lives within me even now. If humans are creative and adaptable (and we are), I still have hope concerning a future for me with meaningful intimacy and even love.
