Kicking and screaming all the way to 40.
August 10th 2010 03:11
When I say the last ten years have gone fast, I am not telling anyone over the age of thirty-five anything new. I think everyone agrees that the older you get, the faster time goes. It seems like just yesterday I was making bad dating decisions, getting drunk too much and living in a small apartment trying to figure out how I was going to make rent that month.
I’m still trying to figure out how to make rent every month but I think I have the dating thing down since I was able to rope me a husband. And any more than two glasses of wine and I’m asleep by 8pm. So now I’m a mother of two, fast approaching her fourth decade on this planet and trying to desperately find the hand brake on Middle Aged Lady Land.
So in order to keep my senility – well, at least until old age takes that as well – I made a list on positive things about becoming my mother...I mean ageing..
1. In a hostage situation, the elderly are always the first to be released.
2. You no longer have to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks in the room.
3. Your secrets are safe with your friends since they can’t remember them anyway.
4. Our bodies may get shorter but it means we’re closer to the ground if we fall.
5. People will no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
All kidding aside, getting older is different for everybody. Some people freak out and buy sports cars, others take up yoga and start drinking wheat grass in an attempt to re-claim the years they feel slipping by. But as the great Abraham Lincoln once said, “It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”
So although I’m not exactly happy about getting older, I am happy to be at the place in life that I am. And I’ve heard a rumour that with age comes wisdom. The only problem with that is that when we finally know all the answers, we can’t remember them.
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