Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt

[gfish]

Whee, I'm 26 now.

That's starting to sound almost adult... and I'm not sure I like that. I'm 3 years out of college, married, looking at buying a house, talk of children in a few years. All the standard illegitimi pro carborundum life changes. Is it selfish to desperately want to maintain a sense of childlike wonder at the world? To grow old without acting old? I don't want to die in the heart or in the head. Not that I think I'm in any great danger of suddenly acting my age, nor have I been wasting much time angsting over this recently. But eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and all that. Nothing wrong with being paranoid with regards to mental hygiene, and a birthday seems like an excellent time for an audit.

Comments

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Enh, it's quite easy to grow older without growing up too much. ;)

Happy birthday! 26 seems so long ago, though it's really not. Of course, I'm only 29 tomorrow and my elder son just turned ten.

Hope you have a most excellent day.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

It seems so long ago to his wife, too. ;)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Strange how that works. *grins* I always just remember the advice that you're only as old as you feel, then pat my husband. ;) (He's 24.)