Sunday Stealing: The Aging Meme

The folks at Sun­day Steal­ing rip off a meme from another blog­ger each Sun­day. They give full credit and a link back to that author’s site, of course — and invite every­one to play along. This week, “The Aging Meme” comes from Eva at A Striped Arm­chair.  She was tagged by Emily.

The Aging Meme

At a cer­tain age women should accept that time is march­ing on and dress in an age-appropriate man­ner.  That means that if you are a woman over the age of 40, you should def­i­nitely aban­don the span­dex pants, tube tops, and micro-mini skirts … and never even con­sider show­ing your midriff.  If you were stu­pid enough to pierce your tongue at a younger age, take out that ridicu­lous stud that pre­vents you from prop­erly enun­ci­at­ing your words.  Ditto any adorn­ment of your eye­brows or nose.

At a cer­tain age men should embrace their bald spot or bald­ness.  It’s just a fact of life.  The last time my 21-year-old son had his hair cut, our styl­ist broke the news that his hair is already begin­ning to thin.  And given that she has been cut­ting his hair his entire life — I have pho­tos of her giv­ing him his first hair­cut when he was less than a year old — she is famil­iar with the man­ner in which his hair grows and, unfor­tu­nately, her obser­va­tion is accurate.

When I was a kid I thought I would marry, move away, and never again live in Lodi.

Now that I am older I wish that when I was a teenager and young adult I had known then what I know now, i.e., just how fast time passes and what lit­tle sig­nif­i­cance many of the things I con­cerned myself with then would actu­ally end up having.

You know you are too old to party when even the thought of get­ting dressed and leav­ing the house is just too much effort, so you decide to stay home in your jammies.

You know you are too young to retire when a retiree is hog­ging the fast lane and you can’t pass them because the slow lane is clogged with trucks and other retirees who are clearly in no hurry to reach their des­ti­na­tion. This always occurs when I am run­ning late for a meet­ing, hear­ing or sim­i­lar pro­fes­sional commitment.

When I was in high school I lis­tened to the music of James Tay­lor, Carly Simon, Elton John, the Bea­t­les, John Den­ver, Bar­bra Streisand, and many other artists.

Nowa­days I find I like the music of so many dif­fer­ent artists and gen­res that I couldn’t begin to list them all. I always have music play­ing in my office: Smooth jazz or classical.

On my last birth­day I think we just went out for a quiet fam­ily din­ner. I don’t really remem­ber. The only thing I know for sure is that we were on vaca­tion because we are always on vaca­tion over Christ­mas and New Year’s.

On my next birth­day I want to sleep. We’ll be on vaca­tion, of course.

The best birth­day present I ever got was appar­ently not that memorable …

The first time I felt grown up was prob­a­bly when I started college.

The last time I felt like a kid was when I was recently splash­ing around in the pool, enjoy­ing the sun.

When I read The Road Less Trav­eled by M. Scott Peck, M.D., it changed my life.

Last year was one of tran­si­tion in my pro­fes­sional life.

Next year I hope that America’s cur­rent finan­cial cri­sis is resolved and the econ­omy stabilized.

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