I will not do nonsense when I grow old. Petrou S.

As early as adolescence, a journalist and writer, the author of many columns in the New York Times and Washington Post - began to make a list of “things that he will not do when it is old” - mainly a list of everything that, in his opinion , his parents did wrongly.

Let's admit, we do not want to get old as previous generations did. We do not want to refuse clothes “not by age”, pushing in public transport or turning into an eternally displeased and irritable old man who is in conflict with youth, fashion and - about my God - technology. I will not do when I grow old ”a frank book about fears, disappointments and stereotypes accompanying aging. This is a plan for a new old age and an understanding that aging is not a disease. To become older is the privilege that can be disposed of. Honest, personal, full of sparkling humor, history helps the young generation be more tolerant, and the adult - to look at itself from the side.