February 18, 2008

• Another One Strikes Again....

  I would enjoy having a Birthday so much more if it did not add another year to my age.  I do not feel like I am 57 years old.  It is 3 years away from me turning 60 years old.  For some reason, I had a hard time turning 30 years old, a harder time turning 40 years old and I guess my 50th birthday  was a breeze compared to the previous two birthdays.  For some reason, turning 50 years old did not bother me.....go figure.   But.......my upcoming 60th birthday three years from today, will mark the exit of being middle-aged and the beginning of being a Senior (sounds so much better than turning into an old person).  Personally, while I feel like I was born an old person, I would put my mental age about 35 years old.  That is what I feel like inside myself.  Of course, when I am confronted by an unexpected mirror, I wonder who that person is that is  looking back at me from inside the mirror.   The great thing for me is that sometimes I have a very selective memory....so by tomorrow, I will remember this day as a day my family honors me and celebrates with me for being alive to enjoy another day of my life.  The memory of the actual number my birthday was will be quickly buried under so much more important happenings and joys that the only way that I will realize my actual age is to have to subtract my birth year from the current year.  I do it that way since once upon a time, I was twenty-six for two years due to being in Germany and was really just too busy to remember to turn the mental numbers in my brain to the next number.  I do not want to repeat that experience again!     

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