Life

Do you remember when you were little and you thought the year 2000 was SOOOOO far away?! Maybe you were going to be 50 years old in 2000! Or 40!!! That's ancient when you're only 10. Now it's 2022. If you turned 50 in 2000, you're really old now. If you turned 40 in 2000, you're climbing that chart too. Now when you look back at 2000, it seems like it's so far away again. 

I remember when my mom turned 50. I was 31. 50 seemed old to me. But when I got to 50, psshhh. NOT old! I was still getting drunk at 50! hahahahaha Now? Nah. The recovery time is too long. 

Do you wish you had taken better care of yourself, when you look back on your life? You know, had better eating habits, took better care of your skin, exercised, saved your $$, had children, not had children, paid attention in school, waited longer to have sex or not waited 😊 All those youthful things.

Now you look around at all the things you've "collected" in your life and you think, who's gonna get all this stuff. I have things that are very important to me, sentimentally. Nobody else is going to care about that though. Ewwww. I'm still enjoying all my things (and will continue to) and it's not depressing me but it is weird to think about.

Some things about getting older really take me by surprise. Like, the 70's were 50 years ago?!?!?! The movie, ET, is 40 years old this year. Mick Jagger is 78. Seinfeld ended  24 years ago! The women on the reboot of Sex In the City are the same age now as the Golden Girls were! Holy wow! When someone says, "30 years ago" they mean the 90's. Ugh. We've had our flat screen TV for almost 17 years - but we really still appreciate how great HDTV is. Sirius XM has been on the air for 20 years? 

The other thing that happens when you get older is....death. More often than I'd like, I see an obit or find out that someone I went to high school with or some co-worker, has died. It always makes me think, am I that old?! Just recently I found out that my high school sweetheart died last year. That really made me sad. My 16 year old heart mourned him.

I don't mind about getting old(er). I don't care that I don't have the stamina I used to or that I'm not as strong as I used to be. I'm not one of those people who looks back and regrets things  but just recently I started thinking about the things I still want to do or learn or accomplish. I hope I have enough time!