Another Year of Life

     As another year comes to an end, another year of life is added to my body (on December 23rd).  A body I may say, built by steroids (I have asthma)!  Can't believe that I'm going to be 36 or is it 38???  Well let's just say that I'm somewhere between 29 and none of your business. No offense!

     I still don't see why it fascinates people.  Why the need to know my age?  You know I'm not going to tell you.   You can guess all you want and estimate but I won't admit to anything. If I can avoid it, I will never put my year of birth on anything.


     I must confess though, I am starting to feel comfortable in my own skin.  Almost enjoying it enough to tell you my age. NOT!  It is inevitable I know, we all get old and a wrinkle here and there and that platinum hair that pops up.  What's that all about?  Why do men age gracefully and women get old?  And gravity is no body's friend, trust me!  But it happens to all of us.  And some of us have a harder time with age as a number than others.  Yes, it's just a number but it's getting bigger!

    Funny though, there comes a time in people's lives that they start bragging about how old they are. Maybe it's in their 70's or 80's, definitely in their 90's.  Understandable at that age but at mine?  It's nothing to brag about.  I'm not old enough that I need a walker with an air bag or that I'm so old that they've discontinued my blood type.  I don't even think I'm at that middle age yet. Or am I? What exactly is middle age? Okay, I'm in the middle. The middle of not believing my true age & accepting it! Only my childhood friends actually know or have a sense of my real age. And of course, my family. But not that I've black mailed them or threatened them, but they know better :)

     Maybe I have some secret beauty ritual?  Maybe I go for a detox every few months?  Maybe I have a really good plastic surgeon and so when I tell you I'm 55, I really am!  Well, whatever it is, I'll never tell! All I can say is moisturize, always wear a sun screen & drink lots of water. You hear that all the time, maybe that's all it takes... Maybe.

     All I know is that I'm too young to be my age, whatever age that may be.  I mean really, where has the time gone?  It seems just like yesterday that I was 25!  People always say that you are as young as you feel and it's just a number. Well then, today I'm 36 or 38????