I'm 41. Forteeeeee-waaaahhhhhnnnn! My birthday was back in November, so don't go wishing me happy birthday. But, my husband's bday was Friday and that got me to thinking. Thinking about getting older. It's a weird, weird thing. Kinda like Cheetos - they taste so good, with their bright orange cheese-a-liscious powder, crunchy puffs of...well, I'm not exactly sure what those crunchy puffs are. A pure, American junk food complete with residual orange finger tips. Glorious Side A.
Side A of getting older is also glorious because you're GETTING OLDER. You know the alternative - not so glorious. Being alive is a good thing. You get to be present with the ones you love and hug them and kiss them and hear their voice and see them. All really good things. Being alive means you get to eat warm brownies and build a snowman with your boys and crank the Kings of Leon in your car and feel sand beneath your feet and laugh till tears come from your eyes and write books. Again, all really, really good things ~ all as yummy as the cheesy-goodness of a freshly opened bag of Cheetos.
Ah, but if we have Side A, we must have Side B.
Side B sucks.
Back to the Cheetos. Side B of Cheetos is fairly simple. They are filled with ingredients I can't pronounce which make them toxic and oh so bad for the human body. And speaking of human bodies, that is my Side B of getting older. I long for my 21 year old physique...my pre babies body. The body that could eat crap like Cheetos & ice cream & cheeseburgers and still be a size 6. Another Side B of getting older is when 21 year olds look at me as 'old'. It is such a strange experience because I remember being 21 and thinking 40 year olds were, like, so old. And now I am the 40+year old and I so want to politely explain, "I'm really not that old. You'll see. I swear." But I don't want to scare the nice 21 year olds.
I guess the moral of the story is:
Just eat the freakin' Cheetos because you're not getting any younger.
8 comments:
Haha, amen. Power to the Cheetos!
(though I guess I have no room to talk, not yet having reached the 21-year-old mark...)
Wow, Sarah - so young and so talented - celebrate, with a jumbo sized bag-o-Cheetos.
I'm looking forward to forty cuz I'm hoping to get some gray hairs.
People will hopefully then perceive me as mature.
BPV gray hair on guys is fine, good even.
But gray hair on 'the ladies' makes us look, old. I'm not talking gray hair on an 80 year old lady - that's beautiful. Gray hair on a 41 year old lady - that's 'trip to the salon' worthy.
It's so kind of you to take pity on the 21 year olds. I'd like to laugh at them and pelt them with cheetos.
Myself included. If I had a time machine, I would totally do it.
Time machines remind me of Napoleon Dynomite and Uncle Rico and Kip. That movie is my favorite movie. Ever.
WHAAAHHH!!!! I now have a number of gray hairs and have even plucked a gray eyebrow!!! I empathize and sympathize. But surely enjoy life and still feel about 23. However, I'm trying not to eat the cheetos b/c I want to look a little better that my age which isn't saying much. BLAHHHH.
Lisa
a gray eyebrow, huh? how joe lambert of you.
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