Turning 30 - DayStares to NightMares

 

Congratulations! You are "half" senior-citizen now. You're not very far from being eligible to get money without working (pension) or getting wow percent off on your flight bookings (sp. discounts) or getting the highest order of respect (as grand parents) or high interest rates on fixed deposits (as the elderly) or avail free carrying services at all airports (with wheelchairs) - everything is just half the way farther than it was.

Talking about the near future, you are included in the new market segment list of all anti-aging products which would make sure that you don't age gracefully. It will make you look (as they claim) younger than you are, so keep dealing with the same crap for next decade! You are going to be showered with a lot of regimes to be followed from diet to exercise to hormonal pills to medical check-ups, everything! You will be bombarded to get married (if you're still single), or have kids (if you are married but still just two) or have the next kid (in case you have JUST 1) or worst of all, you'll be told that now you're old, frail, week, out-dated and not-so-happening, so why don't try to find a life for yourself! Ironical as it sounds.

So all the day dreams will change to night mares and night mares to day stares where you'll find everyone staring at you as if it were a crime to turn thirty and still look contended and as happy as you were a couple of years ago. Thirty is as rocking an age as can be, why the hell is there such a lot of fuss about it all. After all, we too are perishable. One day we all go to the same grave. Some of us wearing a label-less dress and others wearing Gucci, who cares! The sand is going to remain the same for all. So, why can we jsut not relax, take a drink and sit back?

Why go frantic over the fact that we are aging. Rather, we are from a lucky few who had a chance to live so far, we didn't die young, we didn't get deceased with an incurable illness, we are hale & hearty, we can walk, think, eat, drink and have fun freely.

We are the one who have seen a transition from the 90's to Y2K and we were the first generation to play video games, we loved name/place/animal/thing, we all went to cyber cafe to access internet, the first social networking we used were yahoo chat rooms or hotmail messenger, we all had lovely abbreviations like ASL & LOL which still exist, we went from radio to tape recorder to CD players, we also saw VCD's that the generation after us can never imagine, Walkman was our i-pod, those lovely 5 color pens, MASH & FLAMES predicted our crush statuses, land-lines excited us more than instant messaging does today - hell ya, we had more fun than kids who were born after us!

So keep calm & & don't just Turn 30, Churn it up!

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