Age is an interesting thing. Only children use fractions to tell their age. "I'm four and a half." You're never twenty three and a half or thirty six and a half.
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You JUMP to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?" "I'm going to be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16." and then, the greatest day of your life... you BECOME 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony...You BECOME 21! YES!!!
But then you TURN 30. Ooooh, what happened. there? He TURNED. We had to throw him out. There's no fun now. You're just a sour dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then your PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes. It's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.
But wait!! - You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would.
So, you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it is a day-to-day thing. You HIT Wednesday.
You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into your 90's, you start going backwards. "I was JUST 92."
Then a strange thing happens. You make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half.
Ha! Quite true and humorous. Life truly does seem to be an endless series of cycles of one sort or another, doesn't it? I now wish to be able to make it to the point where and I may once again answer, "...and a half." to my retorts in kind.
ReplyDeleteFunny, too, that for me, that at 40 I felt that about "Half my life has been lived", although it did not really feel real to me....
But when I turned 50 I felt, suddenly, that my life was somehow about 85-90% over. So strange how that works. I can only hope I feel that things go back to my actual annual balance of yearly cycles. You know, that when I turn 64 that I'll feel like 64% of my life has been lived. We shall see......
Adorable and very clever!
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