Getting older is an unusual phenomenon. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm getting older just more tired! Things that were done easily in youth now become a chore. Staying up all night? Why would you? Sleeping on the floor of a friends house? Why on earth? Eating junk food till your sick? No thanks, and spending all your time in crazy noisy places with crazy noisy people? Pass!
No, that doesn't mean I don't want to have fun anymore and be silly and stupid at times, I'm just less willing to put up with the uncomfortableness that often came as a result of some of the dumb things you do when you're young.
And anyway, no matter how old you get there will always be people who look at you as still being young, simply because they are older still and then there are the young people that will suddenly be unable to put an age range on you other than older, late 20s to 40s is all the same when you're a kid; it's just old.
There are of course times when I still feel like a young guy (despite how young kids seems these days, and how wide the age range is growing with regard to whom I consider a kid) and there are time when I feel quite old.
I've accepted that I am out of the loop of what's young and cool and frankly I think part of ageing is when you can do that gladly. Who wants to be caught up in all that nonsense, with their stupid clothes and their awful music?
Everyone gets older, everyone's youth fades away, we all wonder about what we could have done differently, how we could have done more with our youth and in turn how youth is thus wasted on the young. The reality is however that at some stage we need to embrace ageing and enjoy the changes that come. Remember passed times fondly, try and keep a youthful attitude where possible while embracing adult sensibilities. The salad days may have passed but that doesn't mean the good days are all gone. As long as we're alive we can enjoy our lives for what they are. We live now not in the past and frankly who cares how old you are?
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