I woke up this morning to the thought that in 2 years it'll be 10 year high school reunion time. Have I really been out for 8 years? It doesn't really seem like 8 years, but then it seems lifetimes ago that I attended Corsica high. Anyway, thinking about the 10-year reunion and approaching 30 makes me feel old.
The funny thing is that I rarely have the opportunity to feel old. Most of the people I work with are old enough to be my parents (or are at least closer to my parents' ages than my age). It seems like I'm constantly being reminded of how young I am. In committees, I'm continually called on to give "the students' perspective" as if I know what it's like to be an undergrad now. Once our dean half-jokingly called me the "child princess of the library." I'm still not sure whether to be flattered or offended by the comment.
But to the undergrads, I'm already old. What? Older than 21? It can't be humanly possible. Don't people die when they hit 25?
All in all though, I guess I just feel my age. I don't feel particularly old or particularly young, and I'm OK with that. Just wait and ask me how I feel when I finally hit 30 ;)
2 comments:
I could say--try thinking of your 40th high school reunion (in 4 years...)but I won't.
I've had the same experience. I'm going on, living my life, feeling rather young and all of a sudden something comes along (a thought, a comment, an incident) that makes me aware that I'm older than and different from the person I had thought I was all along.
It's been the same with you kids. All through your growing up years, there were moments when I thought, "Wow, he/she has really grown." I had that recently with Myles. He's no longer a kid--he look like a young teenager. (How's that for making you feel older......)
:)
you totally can't start talking about being freaked out by turning 30 yet. you're just barely past the halfway point! still firmly in your 20s!
but i do know what you mean. i have a hard time grasping my age, not so much because i feel old or young, but because it has no real identity anymore. it's not like being 16 or 21 or 50, for that matter.
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