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[yosnowden]

I had a chance to see King Lear with Derek Jacobi in the title role when it was broadcast live from the Donmar a while ago. It was excellent in really every way. I read Lear long ago in school, but never since, so it was interesting to see how my perception of the play had changed. I was a little surprised to find that I felt somewhat

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I'm curious why it made you worried about getting old

[ext_202043]

Time has also been on my mind a lot lately. (Big transitions in life will do that to you, I think.) Perhaps if I'd read King Lear I would know! Ah, my poor uncultured self.

I think most of my personal worries about getting old are intellectual worries - as in, I think about one of my grandmothers and how her mind has kind of gone, the trouble she has in thinking and remembering, and I don't want that to happen to me. I'm a thinker. If I cannot think, I'm no longer me. That's how I feel anyways. (Hopefully a very long time, if ever, until that becomes a present concern though.)

But most of my worries about getting older are actually worries about what will happen to the other people I love, since every single one of them, it turns out, is getting older at exactly the same speed I'm getting older.

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yay for theater! I've never read/seen King Lear, now I think I might check it out.