Old characteristics

As a person getting nearer the end of his 80’s, I wanted to list some of the older person’s phenomena that I have experienced.

Newly shrunken food capacity - we often had standard sizes for meals and now we can only eat maybe half or ⅔ thirds of that much.  

Words, especially names, don’t come to mind as quickly, or even at all.  Relatedly, my speech recognition is much more erratic than it was.  It is bad enough that I often ask Lynn what she said when I find that I did understand her but my recognition of that is slow.

I have habituated myself to a half hour nap every day.

Fiction books and movies are too repetitious.  It is always a bad guy with a gun or knife or it is a slow awareness of attraction between her and him.