Met up with AK this evening for the first time in over a decade. He suffered a bad fall a while back and was a bit unsteady on his feet, but other than that was very much the same AK, battling on. Despite having plenty to talk about it was odd how often we came back to the need to take care of our aging bodies, especially in terms of avoiding falling down. As a kid, falling is a natural activity, almost to be welcomed. In adolescence and as an adult it's a sort of non-issue. So when it starts to loom large in one's senescence it all comes as a bit of a surprise, but a disturbingly fascinating one in its way.
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