Jim Gaffigan on the perils of aging gracefully

Aging gracefully – is that the goal? We are supposed to age gracefully?

I don't think I've ever been described as graceful. Lumbering, maybe. Now I'm supposed to be graceful when essentially my knees have completely stopped working?

Aging gracefully implies an acceptance, really the antithesis of Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night." Thomas encouraged us to fight off death and aging. Of course, Dylan Thomas died when he was only 39, so he never knew how inflexible knees are in your 50s.