When Are You Old?

It all starts, the moment you turn 38.  This is when we are first affronted with the reality of our age.  This is when we are forced to give up the youthful daydreams that have always floated around in our minds and accept the fact that “being a rock star” just isn’t going to happen.  This is when we get the notice that our graduating class will be holding it’s 20 year reunion.  This is when the gray hair transitions from being a novelty, to a reality.  This is when the babies that those classmates in High School had are in college.  This is the year we become those people that we always looked at before as being kind of old.  This is when our metabolism gives up and goes into retirement.  This is when things like creamed spinach, pickled beets and liver start sounding good.  This is when we stop wanting to go to rock n roll concerts. This is the year we reach the half-way point to 76, which, by the way, is when the odds for death are extremely high.

This is where old begins, and quite honestly, I’m relieved to accept it and dismiss the burden of becoming a rock n roll star.