here's your old lady

[flea]

I've been feeling old recently. I'm 36, which when you think about it is in fact coming up on possible grandparenthood, biologically speaking. The body doesn't know that my kids are only 2 and 5.

Partly the children, comparing myself to them, is what is making me feel old. They heal incredibly quickly; their skin is soft and smooth (like a baby's bottom!); they have boundless energy. I have wrinkles, grey hair which is becoming increasingly noticeable, the start of my mother's paunch, and weird foot calluses. I am always tired (mostly this is the children's fault of course).

So, when does the wisdom kick in?

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[serrana.livejournal.com]

I am finding leg-lifts v. helpful with the paunchiness (mind you, I have always had a tummy, but it is a lot worse since two c-sections).

And I try to think of it as, now that I'm a mother I know how clueless my parents must have been, so I don't have to be as irritated with their incompetence as I was when I was younger. I guess that's a sort of wisdom, the realization that we are all basically well-meaning idiots bumbling along together.

[cashmerepett.livejournal.com]

Youth is WASTED on the young. It's true!

*sigh*

[zmayhem.livejournal.com]

The Slayer-like healing powers have been unnerving. And the perfect skin is just unfair. Wisdom would be a more than reasonable consolation prize in return for the wrinkles, gray and weariness, but so far it hasn't shown up out this way either. If any does, I'll most definitely share. I'm too tired to make proper use of it all on my own, anyway.

[ellenbs.livejournal.com]

I think perfect skin is wasted on the young even more than youth is. Hmph.

Did you get the invitation to our 15th (FIFTEENTH!) college reunion? Told guy-I-work-with about it, and he was all "Yeah, I'm feeling old too. I just got an invitation to my 5th reunion. I mean, high school, not college, but still.." And then I killed him.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Heh. The 25-year-old pointed out a grey hair the other day, and I was like "....yes. I have several more. Would you like to risk your life by trying to find them and point them out as well?"

The GILF was 38 when I met her and she had just become a grandparent...:)

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.