Aging and Self-Restoring

Aging people discover to their great dismay, that many of their newly acquired infirmities no longer run a self-terminating course. Disabilities linger and even worsen. For agers, it's much like when one asks Windows to "restore" itself after a major computer glitch and it reports "Sorry, Windows was unable to restore to that date." And when it comes to analgesics, oldsters find them frustratingly less effective than before, perhaps because of our steadily diminishing capacity to secrete dopamine and other feel good hormones. No doubt about it, the capacity to self-restore swiftly withers with age. But there is a definite upside to getting older ~ as the years go by we have much more to look back upon, providing we have retained our memory.