Believe Me Age is Really Just a Number

We hear it all the time, especially from young people, particularly young women who admire older men and from older women who have eyes for younger men.
These days the older women are looking better than ever in the history of the Caribbean, it seems to me. No longer are they hazarding their health and their physical appearance by getting volumes of little babies. They are educating themselves and making time for the gym. Granted, many of them are not really losing the weight, because if there is one thing we do not lack in the Caribbean it's food, and lots of it; and the women are cooking it. So this idea of walking the hills and highways for the purpose of losing weight is a fallacy. Caribbean women love little children around them, and anywhere there are little children, there will be fattening, sweet foods, which these women are cajoled to indulge the children in, otherwise they are in for harassment and actual competitive analysis by the children they adore concerning which of the aunties is the nicer one, and the nicer one is the one who lets them have the ice cream and the pizza which they want you- yes- you, the walker-across-the-highway, to taste and see how good it is. And if you taste Jacquille's ice cream and you do not taste Shaquille's ice cream, you are losing the favor battle. So do not tell me that you are walking the FT Williams Highway, The Garrison or  The Savannah to lose weight; not in the West Indies and not if you are woman.
 But as usual I ramble and I love it.
 The women are looking good no matter the age. Age is no longer a factor in love or anything else as long as persons are sane and adult. What matters is:
 what do you possess?
 Where are you going?
Where can we go together in life and where can you take me?
 These are the things that matter to the people of this age, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. It makes no sense being with someone who is the "correct" age but can take you nowhere in life; can do nothing for you, but when he or she dies (which today has nothing to do with age) leaves you with nothing but abject poverty and headache.
 Of course there are older people who have been just as unambitious as the young, and this is why I say age is just a number whether you are old or young.
 What matters more than anything else is not how old you are, but who you are. What type of person are you. what stuff are you comprised and composed of. What type of temperament are you inundated with and what qualities and ambitions have you demonstrated. If you get an A for quality as an individual,  someone who gets to know you won't even remember your age. All you need to do (if a younger individual finds you appealing and you permit that individual into your life) is hope to God that the persons stays around when you begin to drivel.