When You're Young
I think this is one of my favorite exchanges between the older folks on our trip, Isabelle, Bill & Ella, also know in our group as "The Wrinklies" (How's that for a band name Groon?).
Age is something that has always fascinated me. So to hear them discuss their views on aging, and to hear them speak of them having a generation to look up too, amazes me.
And before I am chided for calling them "The Wrinklies", you have to understand it is said with the greatest amount of affection. I easily spent 2 to 3 hours a day with them, and not out of obligation or duty.
No way, it was to gather all this fantastic material.
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Yes, mog is a bit glitchy tonight.
That's great. It's really true, you don't think you'll ever get old when you're young. But boy oh boy does age come on like gangbusters once you hit 30!
Still not hearing those high ringtones either Aug?
Eh, missy, what's that ya say?
The Wrinklies . . . I like it. But not for us.
I'm always amazed when I think that old people were once young like me. My grandmother passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 95--and honestly I think if she hadn't had that one bad turn she'd outlive us all, she was otherwise as healthy and active as an ox--but I remember going to the viewing and everything before hand and seeing a picture of her when she was a child, maybe 6 or 7. Didn't look anything like her at all, but I remember being affected deeply by that. Every body was once young. Kids today will get old. And while that's such an elementary thing to say and understand it's really hard to wrap your brain around.
And it's even harder for me to realize how things get relative from one generation to the next. For example: my students these days will sometime wear T-shirts with bands like Nirvana on them. I don't conisder Nirvana an "old" band (I mean, it can't be that old since I was in college at the time, right? RIGHT?) but then I think "Wait a tick--Nirvana to these kids is the same as Led Zeppelin was to me. Old as HELL."
Hard to explain, but it's just weird.
I have found that age creeps up on you almost over night. One moment you can do whatever and feel no pain, the next you feel sore in places you never had before. Glad to see I am not the only on feeling the MOG glitch tonight, this place is acting weird
I'm getting to the age where I could start getting girlfriends who have gone through the menopause. Looking forward to it with more interest than trepidation....
Neill, I promise I'll take you to an early bird special the minute I get there.
I realised I was getting older when I was doing lawn care. Once in awhile you had to jump a fence to get in a yard. I was probably 29 (I know not old, but no longer young either). I jumped of a top of a fence, something I had done thousands of times when I was younger. When I landed, my body vibrated, it didn't do the sort of "bounce" it would have when I was younger. The vibration hurt. I felt like I'd lost an elasticity of my youth. I didn't get hurt or anything, but it stayed with me that I might not want to do physical stuff like I was a teen anymore.
CBW - Did you feel it in your ankles??? That's where age hit me first when jumping like that.
How are you doing with all this hurricane business?
Yeah, and it vbrated through every bone. Very disconcerting. I didn't feel "loose" anymore.
Actually, Belle, it is 26.2 miles.
Love it Annie. Keep up this great new artform. So thoughtful and artistic. xo