another day older
Yours truly passed another milestone yesterday on the long journey to “so-called” Social Security, as some C&W singer used to put it. I went to work as usual, and then Tricia and I had a quiet evening out. It’s kind of scary getting old. I have taken to comparing myself to my own father and grandfather when they were my age. Do you ever do that? I am now the same age that my father was when I graduated college.
January 13th, 2006 @ 10:06 am
Happy Belated Birthday. I saw Mary Lou didn’t forget, even if she had to put a comment on an older post. It’s funny, but I haven’t done that kind of comparison with my mother. What my sisters and I have been doing is comparing my mother’s age to my recently deceased grandmother’s. As in, “When Grandma was the age that Mom is now, she was doing thus-and-so.” We generally concluded that we expect more of my mother than we did of her own mother at the same age.
January 13th, 2006 @ 10:41 am
I do that most often when looking at old photos… when I realize, “Hey, Mom was younger in that picture than I am now!”
January 14th, 2006 @ 10:22 am
Happy day!
Comparisons - yup. But, I fake myself out saying my generation has modern medicine and the fashions are much more flattering.
Uh huh.
January 14th, 2006 @ 9:41 pm
Why did you have to say that? I’m slipping into Obsessive Mode and you’ve just given me material….
Happy Birthday, Bill!
January 15th, 2006 @ 9:01 pm
Quiet birthdays are some of my favorites. Good wishes to you for a happy year of good health and much joy.
Yes, I do the comparison thing often. Gives one a whole new perspective on parents and grandparents, doesn’t it?
January 16th, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
I do it the other way around. I look at my son and think, “Gee when I was his age, I already had a kid and was in the process of getting a divorce.” Then I’m relieved that he hasn’t made the same mistakes I did.
Happy birthday!