What is old? How do you define it? As I approach another year closer to the dreaded 4-0 I am finding myself wondering this. I used to think 40 was really old. I don’t ‘feel’ old, but what does old feel like anyway? Do eighty year olds feel the same way inside that I do?
I must be kind of old, I do have an almost seventeen year old daughter and have been married eighteen years. I lived through the seventies–but I don’t remember a lot of that decade, mostly because I was too young. I lived through the eighties and I wore big shoulder pads and big hair. I got married in the nineties and that was almost two decades ago.
Little kids think I am old–for example a little guy I watch asked “What did you do before there were cars, like how did you get to school and stuff”. I, of course, reassured him that I was not THAT old and we did have cars when I was his age. My own kids think I am old, but they also think a lot of other things about me that I won’t mention here.
I am starting to think age really is just a number. Maybe the people who say you are as old as you feel, have the right idea. I sure don’t feel 38, but I am sure glad I am not 16 anymore either!
So my question to all of you is “What is old?” and “Will I know it when I get there?” Just wondering…
