Feeling Old | Pad Patter 4.14

I feel old when I go to Girl Scouts and there are all these young mom's running around with kids. So glad this is our last year and I won't feel so old any more. Then I go to bowling with the retired ladies every Thursday - where I am the "baby" at 58 and the lunch discussions are about how 72 isn't all that "old".

All relative....

 

It's totally relative, Bev. Most of the people in our neighborhood are a lot older than me. The lady across the street calls me "a baby".

 

I think that depends. My brother's kindergarten teacher is 21. One of my favorite childhood teachers was 68.

 

Things that make me feel old are realizing my siblings are older. Because that's always a moment when I go "wait, if they are x, that means I'm y!" And the high school reunion group that Facebook wants me to join. That makes me feel old.

 

You have a point. Teachers aren't hatched at retirement age. DD's fifth grade teacher graduated college mere months before the school year began so of course I was older than she was...actually, she was closer in age to her students than to most of the parents lol.

But my experience as an elementary student was different: all my teachers were old *to me*. Even my pregnant third grade teacher seemed old, although she was probably no more than 30. Did I have a horrible understanding of age? Probably. You were a kid or you were an adult, period. Kids: young. Adults: old.

And my comment wasn't to say all teachers are old but to point out how wrong I was as a kid lol.

 

I'm approaching five 0 this year. Not happy about it because I don't feel old, but I sure look it. Makes me want to go all vampire and get rid of the mirrors.

 

Got notification of my class reunion this summer. Knew it was happening this year but between a 45th class reunion and the 50th anniversary of the moon walk that I actually remember... made me feel much older today!

And, the FB notifications of people I know that are retiring are happening way more often... to them I say "you'll love it!"

 

I'm solidly in my mid-40's. I had my littlest dude when I was 43, so most people assume I'm younger than I am. I always laugh when people ask me if I'm having more ... um, I'm 45, so no, it's extremely unlikely. Some days I notice my age, but most days I just feel wiser than I was when I was younger. I totally wish I didn't have to contend with the physical aspects of aging, but I also know that I'm limited on what I can do about that. One of the gals on my team was talking about "old people who are in their mid-40's" to me and I was like ... "um, you mean like me?"

 

My husband and I were just talking about this last night ... when I was pitching a 3rd kid (it took me 10 years to convince him, lol ), I said that it would keep us younger. Last night he declared that not to be the case, lol . I told him it was too soon to tell. I have to admit that sometimes I feel a smidge self-conscious (or maybe a little like an imposter) among the younger moms. The good thing about the area I live in is that it has a lot of "older" parents, so even the younger ones are in their 30's. Most of my friends didn't start their families until after 35 and some in their 40's.