Getting OldDrimble asks: When was it last brought home to you just how old you're getting? We last asked this in 2004, and you're eight years older now. Eight. Years.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 13:24)
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When I get my hair cut more grey than brown comes out.I'll be 44 in November and it's irrelevant. I've acquired, along the way, rather intrusive Tinnitus (not surprising - I've subjected my ears to all sorts of shite) and an inherited blood disorder which I can control.
On the whole, though, I'm having a lot of fun getting older. I'm not fixating about a time in my life, I'm embracing the more acceptable bits of popular culture and enjoying them, I still love live music and get to new bands whenever I can.
So - what is getting old? There are numbers in an inevitable chronology but there's also an attitude, a frame of mind that disregards that irrevocable progression.
I'm not about to suggest that I have any sort of commonality with da yout' - neither should I. It's their youth and it's an entirely other culture to mine.
I won't get wilfully old and it's the concept of submitting to a calendar - dictated number that dismays me. There is an immense assumption that calendar years equal assumed goals and the slavish adherence to this perception of achievement is nonsense - class-conscious shite that has risen from the distillation of the class system.
Do what you do. If you feel old, tone it down. DON'T be constrained by the number on your birth certificate.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 21:25,
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Thought provoking(, Tue 12 Jun 2012, 11:43, closed)
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