Growing Older is Bittersweet
As you get older there are the things people tell you will happen. At 30 your knees will stop working. The older you get the longer you need to stretch before physical activity. Your body doesn’t bounce back like it use to. Just three of the things I have heard my entire life and I am finally starting to understand. I am not as young as I use to be. I look in the mirror and I still see my 20 year old self. When I think about how old I am I usually lean towards my younger twenties. Not because I am trying to hold on to something, I just genuinely feel that way still. The truth is I am 30 and I am not going to get any younger… So I, like everyone before me, get to find out what it is like to get older. Out of all the advice that you hear about getting older, no one tells you about the hardest part. It is not the physical, mental, or even emotional aspect of age. The hardest part for me has been watching as my parents and other adults I have grown up watching grow older. I know s...
