Are We Getting Older Younger??

Well, it is now 5 days til I turn 20, and it’s dawned on me that I am already feeling old. Now how can this be? I feel as fit as a fiddle, a fiddle with an occasionally sore knee. I don’t call anyone “sonny” (except for Sonny Bill Williams), and I still don’t know where to buy old peoples fragrance… as I don’t know if you’ve noticed but they all seem to smell the same. So in an attempt to see if I was indeed getting older, I compiled a list of things that make me feel old.

Things that make me feel old.

Number one: When you start celebrating pregnancies.

Now I remember back in grade ten, where for a week or two all everyone talked about was this girl that got pregnant. And well at the very least, it wasn't celebratory talk. Yet now when someone has a baby (admittedly they are a couple of years my senior) everyone is like "nawwwwwwww".

Number two: When you start complaining about school kids on the bus.

To be honest i thought i wouldn't do this one for a while. However it seems that today's youth is out to prove me wrong. Sitting on the 385 one afternoon, the backseat was full of 5 private school girls, probably about grade 9 or 10, and they were taking photos of eachother, with a camera (as you do), in the backseat of the bus (as you do)... Anywho, during their review of the afternoons photos, one girl made a comment about another girl looking fat in one of the photos. To which she replied, wait for it, and i quote, "you really shouldn't say that about me, i'm very self conscious you know, cause if i think i'm fat, cause like i'm self conscious and all, i might go on a crash anorexic diet, cause i'm very self conscious. I've done it before you know, remember the last time you called me fat, i totally went on an anorexic diet cause you made me feel totally self conscious, cause i'm like that you know". End quote. Enough said.

Number three: When you've played your first game of lawn bowls.

Admittedly this actually happened quite a while ago. Although there was some hope for my youth as i failed dismally.

Number four: When your body starts hurting after doing new physical activities.

The joy of discovering muscles you never knew you had, and how much they can hurt...

Number five: When you have to ask someone for help with your mobile phone.

Apparently it's now too hard to have a "delete all" function for your sms inbox... so they made a "mark all" function... for which the only action you can do once you have selected them all is delete them... efficiency? i think not.

However, it does seem there is still some hope for my sense of youth. I am still hopeless at lawn bowls, i still have a "facebook", and i don't have a little container for my pills with labels for which day i should take them. Nor do i wear a tracksuit everywhere, or have a tartan shopping trolley with 2 wheels.