Growing up and liking it

Once upon a time a good friend of mine told me 'When you're young, you wish you'd grow up. When you grow up, you wish you were young again'. Or something like that.

My friend may have been true in many ways. Now that I'm all grown up, there are things I look at, like 'damn, I'm really old'. There are things that I did when I was younger that now I feel too old to do. Like when I was in college, I loved going to nocturnal events (good and morally upright ones). Now even begging me with tears streaming like a river won't make me even want to leave the house. I feel a little too old to do all that jumping-up-and-down-all-night stuff. There were those days when I loved music because of the beat, and the 'yeah-yeah-yeah yo-yo', now, whenever I listen to anything, I have to meditate on the words, and if the words don't make sense, I won't think twice about the song.

All that and more have made me think - I hope I'm not becoming boring. I remember in my heydays, I would find adults a little too boring. I wondered why they were so stiff. Until I recently realized I was one of them. I critiqued like they did, I think twice about anything like they did, I'm not so into things I was into before, the world is rather different from this point of view.

Whatever it is, I slowly had to realize growing up doesn't have to be boring. I may not have to 'shakey leggy' like I could when I was young, or get so excited coz Mr. Hunky-dorry fell in love with Ms. Sweet-and-pretty, but it has its own excitements. I'm glad that now I have totally full wisdom, and do not have to trip on things I did. Thinking twice has helped me make the right decisions over and over again, reducing the pains that'd have befallen me if I wouldn't. I may not be overly puppy-crazy over fashion and stuff, but I know when I buy something, I buy what I need, and I won't have to wonder later on why I bought something I don't even use.

So I guess there is something nice about whatever age, and all you gotta do is look for the roses in your age and smell them. It doesn't have to be drag and boring!