“We had the experience, but missed the meaning.
T.S. Eliot
At a meeting of medical and surgical specialists years ago, the following remarks were made:
“Anyone who thinks because he or she is getting along in years they must have loss of vigor, debilities, or that degenerative disorders should be experienced, is suffering from a ‘time neurosis’ which may be more effective than physical conditions in producing the effects they fear.
Every human tissue is endowed with potential immortality when adequately provided with food factors, oxygen and suitable warmth, and when removal of waste is carefully affected. Time has no effect on human tissues maintained under these condition, or indeed, under any conditions. Vigor does not necessarily vary with the age of the adult. Belief in the effect of time tends to reduce ambitions, and therefore expectations and endeavors curtailed.
All those who develop a time-neurosis submit to the prevalent superstition that time is in some way a poison excerpting a mysterious cumulative action. The obsession itself may be the cause of dying prematurely. Senility, they say, is a neurotic condition.”
“ Time is not Toxic” quoted from the NY Herald Tribune
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