For many, it has been a month of “senior moments.” It started with GMA appointing two senior citizens, ages 74 and 79, to be her press secretary and spokesperson, respectively.

Next came her signing into law of the bill exempting senior citizens from the 12 percent value-added tax. The beneficiaries of law – for whom the clock is ticking louder and faster – can only hope that the implementing rules and regulations will be out before today’s teenagers reach their 60th birthday.

Then suddenly, as the campaign season was officially upon the land, the most senior of the presidential candidates began plastering the city with posters showing his likeness of 40 years ago, pictures so old he looked as young as his son.

Isn’t there a law mandating truth in advertising? Yes, but is there a law against receiving Botox injections?

Addressing a roomful of white-haired, gray-haired, silver-haired business leaders, another presidential candidate – the 45-year-old lawyer and pilot – said that if he wins, he will make his government the “vehicle and facility” to convey their ideas to reality. “The ideas must come from you,” he emphasized, refusing to sound like he has all the answers. In the company of older men, the candidate knew how to show respect and defer to the wisdom their experience – in other words, learning from their youthful mistakes.