Every time I see an ad that says 30 is like the new 20, 40
is like the new 30 and 50 is like the new 40 I want to slap the person who came
up with it. I’m sure it is someone who
is in their 20’s and has no clue what it’s like to get older or it’s someone
who is older and is just trying to make themselves feel good about their
age. Either way they still deserve to be
slapped because I’m pretty sure when I was twenty it didn’t feel the same as
when I was 30, and when I was 40 it didn’t feel the same as when I was 30.
I’ve also heard that wisdom comes with age. This is true but most of the time you can’t
remember anything any way so where the heck did all this wisdom end up. I once had a friend who was watching me struggle
to remember something say to me “our mind is like a great big filing cabinet
and as we get older we just have more files to go through to find the one file
that we are looking for”. I’m not sure
if she was trying to make me feel better about not remembering or if she was
trying to point out in a nice way that I was old, either way it did make me
feel better so that is what I’m going with.
As we get older the things that we used to do with no
problem seems to become more and more difficult. Now when I do things I think “what the heck
is that noise” and then I realize it’s my body going snap, crackle and pop. I also find myself moving slower than what I
used to move or being more cautious when doing things. Man getting older sucks!!!!
As we get older we start growing skin tags all over our
bodies. Skin tags seem to grow over
night. One day you have none and then
the next day you’re like “where did that come from”. They are never cute enough to be called a
beauty mole, no they look like those eye things that grow out of potatoes when
you have had them for too long. Getting older sucks!!!
I now catch myself asking “when did the (pick any place)
start hiring children?” and then I realize that they are actually adults. When did everyone start looking so young to
me? Man it sucks getting older!!!!!
The other day I caught myself taking my glasses off so that
I could read the small print on something and I found myself thinking “when did
they make the print so small?”. I was so
frustrated until I went to work and saw a co-worker do the same thing which
made me so happy until I realized that she is older than me. I said something to my eye doctor about
having to do this and he said “well it’s all part of getting older and that his
dad was going through the same thing”, what the heck I’m now as old as my
doctors parents, when did this happen?
So while I’m trying to embrace getting older I still want to
go on record as saying “GETTING OLDER SUCKS!!!!”
