Rules for Aging - resist normal impulses, live longer, attain perfection - by Roger Rosenblatt is one of those little gems that everyone should have on their bookshelf. It's a quick read which will have you chuckling from the very beginning. But there are places in the book where you'll want to set it down and meditate because the wisdom on the page is so profound.
Advice is offer on such profound topics as It doesn't matter, Nobody is thinking about you, and Let bad enough alone. You are advised to let swine alone rather than trying to save them and to ignore or kill your enemy rather than love or try to change them.
Some of the advice is short and to the point, other pieces require two or three pages to fully explain. However, Mr. Rosenblatt never sounds like he's being paid by the word.
Personally, I enjoyed the authoritative but non-moralistic tone of the book. As Rosenblatt says in his introduction: "When I urge you to refrain from a certain thought or course of action, I do not mean to suggest that you are in any way wrong if you do the opposite. I mean only to say that you will suffer."
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