Youth

You're young

                She kept saying that. Why? I feel old, age is just a number it’s the feeling you have when you wake up in the moring and your back hurts and your knee aches and your shoulders are sore and your hand that you nearly lost in a machine at a job you hated but worked anyway because that's what adults do, that hand hurts like a mother fucker. That's how I feel. I feel old. I do you young things. I paddle. I take chances. I drink. I dance….after I've drank. I drive fast, sometimes…to be honest this one is a lie. I got all my speeding done when I was young…..

See…I told you so.. I'm old.

You have you whole life ahead of you!

                I don't know that she believes that. What does it mean? We can't have our whole life in front of us. Unless we are 1 minutes from utero. I doubt we are conscious enough at that age (10 months? or 1 day old???) Only then is your whole life ahead of you, because you have only just begun to live. At 30 it’s a fair assumption that at least .3333 of your life is behind you. If my life where pizza….I have already eaten 2.5 slices at the very least.

I'm old. Not because I've lived this many years,but because this many years has passed while I wasn't living.