Growing Old with Indignity
In the last year I’ve started to feel myself getting older. Isn’t that amazing? You cruise along looking beautiful and young, then BAM! you suddenly realize that you’re getting older. I mostly work with people more than 10 years my senior, and I always poo-poo’d them when they said, “Wait until you get to be my age, you won’t be able to (insert cliché growing old thing here) like you used to”.
So here’s what I’ve noticed in the last year:
1. I have more aches and pains
2. I can’t eat NEARLY as much as I used to (I used to be able to chow down a whole box of Mac ‘n Cheese without regret)
3. I can’t stay up nearly as late as I used to
4. I’m ready for a nap every day after work
5. I’ve got a little extra skin under my chin (ahhhh!)
6. On July 12th of this year I discovered a WRINKLE!
All that and I’m only 27.
I was thinking some more of our friend from dinner the other night who is 95. I wonder if he sat at 27 and thought ‘this is the best I’ll ever look’? Am I the best I’ll ever look right now? Am I missing out on my chance to take advantage of the little bit of metabolism that I have left to get the prefect body? And most importantly, where can I find a magic eye cream to keep that one wrinkle lonely?
