[HPFGU-OTChatter] /being old(ish)

[Sheryll Townsend]

 --- Martha <fakeplastikcynic at hotmail.com> wrote: > 

> > Laura Ingalls Huntley:
> Well, it is now officially My Birthday.
> 
> God, I hate getting older.
> 
> P.S. Considering how depressing birthdays are at 19,
> I don't think 
> I'll
> be able to take it at 30 or 40. <snip snip>
> 
> Martha:
> Laura, you are not alone. At 19 and at 20 I felt
> completely wretched -
>  I spent weeks beforehand going "God I'm going to be
> so old and die 
> alone smelling of wee and stale biscuits in a bedsit
> in Bristol with 
> loads of stray cats..." etc. Now I'm 21 and I feel
> younger than I did 
> then. (Going away to university and being given free
> money helped, 
> even if I do have to start paying it back relatively
> soon and have no 
> idea how I am going to do so.)
> 
I've yet to have a birthday bother me, though we'll
see what turning 45 brings next summer. 

My sister, on the other, has always been bothered by
birthdays. Turning 34 bothered her so she went and got
her navel pierced. Year before last, after turning 38,
she got another tattoo. Lord only knows what she'll do
on turning 40 in couple months!

> The weirdest thing, though, is that at 21 I still
> don't feel old 
> enough to do a lot of grown-up things - but I have
> friends who are 
> looking at buying houses, getting married, having
> kids... I guess 
> that's our generation rebelling against rebellion. A
> t-shirt I once 
> saw:
> 
> "Our parents' generation rebelled with sex and
> drugs. Our generation 
> rebelled with sobriety and chastity. Somehow I think
> we got cheated."
> 
I'm 44 and don't always feel old enough to be doing
grown-up things. And I certainly don't feel my age.
This is aided to no end by working with teenagers, who
express constant disbelief that I'm old enough to have
a daughter who is 20. I'm always being told I don't
look old enough.

I have an aunt who says that the key to getting older
is to pick and age you like and stay there. Using
that, I suspect I've yet to pass my 20s. :-D

Sheryll

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