The Privilege of Aging

Something I reflect on daily, actually.

Because I know, I think we've talked about this before.

I don't feel like I'm 63.

Whatever that's supposed to feel like.

Like, that's kind of a silly statement in itself.

Did you read the book that says this is how you're supposed to feel when you're 63? I didn't.

But I get that feedback from others.

You know what I mean? Like you're out and about and I think I'm just doing me.

And then I realized people, they treat you differently.

Like all of a sudden, I'm seen as 60.

I don't see myself as 60 something, but everybody else does.

So that part is really kind of always kind of smacks me upside the head.

Trying to think about, yeah, just how we're seeing ourselves is quite different.

It's almost, sometimes, you know, when you look in the mirror, and now, of course, with all technology, you can kind of blur things a little bit.

And it's like, oh, yeah, there we are, 42 or whatever.

And then other mornings, you get, oh, jeepers, yeah, no blurring and whatever.

looking older, but still feeling younger.

And again, it got mentioned ahead of time that when we were in our 40s and our parents were in their 60s or beyond, how we thought of them, I wonder if they felt the same as we do now.

Never asked that question, but it's an interesting

one.

Well, we probably didn't ask the question because we were under the impression that they were thinking old.

And I think that's what it is for me, is that people maybe have expectations of how we think and what we do based on our age, but yet I don't think we always have those same expectations.

And it does sort of slap you in the face sometimes because physically there are things that I could probably do in my 40s that I'm not as able to do now in my 60s.

And that's when I actually realized that, yeah, I am a little bit older than I used to be.

I think there's a lot of those physical parts.