Mid-Life Fear of a Yuppie

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

Last night, I was prancing and trying to get some sleep when suddenly, I thought about getting old, a reality I am hoping to avoid simply because I’m afraid of it.

At 30, I already dread about getting old. I enjoy so much my life now and can hardly imagine what my life would be when I’m what they refer to as senior citizen (in Marikina though, our oldies coined a new word for oldies — they call themselves active adults).

Oh well, it’s still too early to worry about that now. I just wanted, through this site, to tell my mice (my term of endearment for my mom which is pronounced mays in tagalog) that I love her so much and I’m sorry that I sometimes (or oftentimes) neglect her needs and situation as an almost 70-yr old woman. My mice doesn’t even know how to turn on a PC so I’ll just tell her myself tonight.

Got this in my email today, I think it’s funny, probably because I’m still not into the cited situations. Maybe I’ll read this again after 30 years and see If I would be able to even force a smile.

* Everything hurts; and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work.

* The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.

* You feel like the morning after and you haven’t been anywhere.

* Your children begin to look middle aged.

* Your mind makes contracts that your body can’t meet.

* You look forward to a dull evening.

* You turn out the lights for economic rather than romantic reasons.

* You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.

* Your knees buckle and your belt won’t.

* You regret all those mistakes you made resisting temptation. *

* Your back goes out more than you do.

* You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.

* You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.

* You know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

What about you, what do you fear?

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