You know just the other day while riding the CalTrain, I saw a nice, handsome man giving me "the look". You know the look. The "I'm checking you out" look. I sat up a little straighter. Blushed appreciatively. Until I realized he was checking out the twenty-something year old blond sitting next to me.
And I thought, "What's she got that I ain't got?" Well. Perkier boobs for one, because mine were already in high school before blondie was born.
Oy. And so I gave myself the usual litany of "you are only as old as you feel" and "youth is wasted on the young" and "age is a state of mind".
It's true, I don't actually *feel* any older than the child with the supple, elastic skin seated next to me. In fact, at this age, I feel SO much better about myself. Stronger. More self-aware. About eight million times more confident.
So feeling better about myself I bounced from the train and into my day, deciding that pimply boy wasn't all that interesting anyway. I'm young. I'm hip. I have an iPhone.
I just got my hair colored again, covering the grays and putting an even deeper tone of red in there. I have a job and an engagement ring. I'm happenin', man.
Then I read the entertainment section of my local paper and stumbled across this article and felt all the gray hairs sproing up on my head.
Prince is having hip replacement surgery.
That little red Corvette will need to be an automatic cuz my boy can't work the clutch anymore. Darling Nikki uses Oil of Olay. Purple rain the color of a Prilosec tab.
It happens to the best of us, I suppose.
This on the heels of hearing that the timeless and ageless Omar Vizquel needs knee surgery.
*wheeze*
Time, that unforgiving b*tch, marches on.
