Getting Old.
Entertainment January 28th, 2008
When I used to teach I remember thinking to myself how the incoming students seemed to be getting younger and younger each year. That’s before I realized that it was I getting older.
I’m approaching that age when I’ll feel the urge to buy a convertible sports car, have an affair with a young bimbo, and start to invest in high risk portfolios. Getting older has been an adventure that I wouldn’t change for the world.
Watching The Guardian with Kevin Costner (I wasn’t with him, he’s in the movie) last night, those thoughts were driven home by this quote:
Ben Randall: When the heck did we get old?
Maggie McGlone: Hell, I’ve always been old Ben. Ya’ know what though, I don’t mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it’s because I’ve used ‘em. It’s hard for me to walk up them steps now, its ‘cuz I walked up ‘em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I’ve layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain’t bad Ben. Getting old, that’s earned.
And as The Girl and I both age together, she’ll remain as young in my heart as the day I first laid eyes on her through the rear view mirror of her car.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
GOD, what i wouldn’t give to NEVER get old! the thought paralizes me! yes, it’s wonderful to have lived a wonderful life! but why should it be over, damn it??? i wanna lay under them sunny skies some more, and smoke some more and drink some more and #$%^ some more and be able to enjoy that in my young, tight little body!!! ahhh, i like ur thoughts on getting old, and i hope u don’t think badly of me for expressing mine, i know im a freek, i know i have problems.
this, what u said about the Girl, this is so true and so beautiful in a way. it’s funny how we never see the ones we love get old. it’s cuz they never do. love has no age!
January 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Because as you get older you realize the things that age has taught you. These are lessons that you couldn’t pay anyone to teach you.
How you feel about this whole issue really just boils down to how you feel about life in general and what sort of legacy you want to leave behind after you kick the bucket.
Have some kids. You won’t be able to smoke, drink, or sleep under sunny skies as much. You might lose your young, tight body in a hurry. But aren’t the benefits worth it?
Living life and getting old is kind of the same thing as that.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Yeah, but when I go I want to go first.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:26 am
That can be arranged.