It is not the aging that is hard, he said. Aging is easy, you don’t have to do anything except keep breathing, eating and sleeping when you can. No, aging is not hard at all. What is hard, he added with a grimace, is looking in the mirror and realizing that your body has betrayed you, that the you in your mind is not trapped in a sad container with cracks and leaks and there are no replacement models so you keep going to the repair shop and hoping for the best.