Tell-tale Signs...
Dec. 18th, 2005 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningI have been thinking about a stream of comments to an earlier post – http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhythmaning/6532.html – which kind of struck a maudlin note. It made me feel – well, old.
So here are signs that you are getting older… or maybe growing up?
You take out a personal pension plan. (Nineteen years ago.)
A parent dies. Not much you can do about this one, it is really out of your hands; but it is a clear, defining moment. Suddenly you are not a child. (Eighteen years ago.)
You buy property and oh my god it is all yours and you wander from room to room, thinking, oh my god, it is all mine… And there is no landlord to come and fix the dripping taps. (Twelve years ago.)
You realise that the graduates you have been working with are half your age. At which point you stop counting. (Three days ago.)
So here are signs that you are getting older… or maybe growing up?
You take out a personal pension plan. (Nineteen years ago.)
A parent dies. Not much you can do about this one, it is really out of your hands; but it is a clear, defining moment. Suddenly you are not a child. (Eighteen years ago.)
You buy property and oh my god it is all yours and you wander from room to room, thinking, oh my god, it is all mine… And there is no landlord to come and fix the dripping taps. (Twelve years ago.)
You realise that the graduates you have been working with are half your age. At which point you stop counting. (Three days ago.)
