Age..
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?"
"I'm 4 and half."
You're never 36 and a half, but you're 4 and a half going on 5! That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number.
"How old are you?"
"I'm gonna be 16."
You could be 12, but you're gonna be 16. And then the greatest day of your life happens: you become 21. Even the words sounds like a ceremony -you BECOME 21- YES!
But...
then you turn 30. Ooohhh, what happened here? Makes you sound like bad milk. "He TURNED". We had to throw him out. There's no fun now. What's wrong?.. What changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40...stay over there, it's all slipping away...
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50...my dreams are gone...
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50 and then you MAKE IT to 60...Whew! I didn't think I'd make it.
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, You're PUSHING 40, you REACH 50, you MAKE IT to 60, and by then you've built up so much speed, you HIT 70!
After that, it's a day by day thing. You HIT Wednesday, you get into your 80s, you HIT lunch.. lol.. I mean my grandmother won't even buy green bananas, "Well think about it.. it's an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one."
And it doesn't end there...Into the 90's, you start going backwards: I was JUST 92. Then a strange thing happens, if you make it over 100, you become a little kid again: I'm 100 and a half!
Age is a very funny thing.. isn't it?!
[Emailed to me by several friends]
kheili jaaleb bood ... man sen e 23 saalegim o kheili doost dashtam ... kaash mishod hamishe 23 saalam mimoond!
(at February 11, 2006 03:05 PM)
Amir,
Is it perhaps your birthday?? :-) In that case Happy Birthday!
The piece was funny and true. After 30, you don't really want to count! Sometimes I forget how old I am, I know I am thirty something ...
(at February 11, 2006 04:12 PM)
I am 21, everywhere is just like heaven, every body i saw this morning was like the angels, i am living in northern tehran and the weather is so fascinating........ring.ring.ring..oh god, what a nice dream.
(at February 12, 2006 08:47 AM)
Something... but a bit chidish.
If you think about a productuive life age is just a number.And it is a pitty for some brilliant brains to count them old!!!!
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