The Big 4-0
“Did you feel any older when you got up this morning?” “That’s a lot of spankin’s!” “About ready to go to college and go and get a job?” Remember all of those ridiculous things your grandpa would say to you on your birthday every year of your childhood? Remember when hitting ‘double-digits’ was a BIG deal? Remember devouring loads of cake without worrying about the amount of sugar and calories in it? Remember looking forward to your sleepover party so that you could try to stay up all night? I celebrated my birthday this past week; the “Big 4-0”. Well Gramps, every morning when I wake up I feel older… and older and older and older… I think a “spankin” might dislocate my back, and I’m twice the age of the typical college student. Cake and I have a much more complicated relationship these days, and sometimes I can barely survive an all-day-er, let alone an all-night-er. I guess that’s what four decades of life will do to you. I’m faced with ...