Ranjona Banerji | Ageing to perfection sneering, the fine art

Does one get crotchetier as one gets older? My paternal grandfather once said that the great thing about people old is that you can abandon all social filters and say what you like. I say “whippety”, but however sharp my mind might think it is, my physical form is decidedly ample and definitely un-whippety. They also had an annoying habit — both of them — of asking people for advice which they didn’t really want in order to make those people feel wanted. I do this in full knowledge that some of us on social media are not even real people, our personas on social media are not us and who knows, the whole thing might just be someone else’s nightmare.