Getting old sucks!

Getting old is tough. My mind doesn’t feel my age but my body sure does. I really never thought about age, except when I was 18 and I couldn’t wait to be 21. But ever since then, it really never mattered to me. Suddenly, I’ve become very “age sensitive.” Is it because I’m almost reaching Cougar status? Or is there really such a thing as a “biological clock?” If there is, mine is running very slow. I was never in a rush to have kids, or get married or anything like that. But I’m suddenly surrounded by people noticeably younger than me.

I’ve recently signed on to play on a softball team. I haven’t played in a very long time and it’s taking me a little longer to bounce back from Sunday practices followed by Monday night games. I remember the days when I would play softball six nights a week and sometimes a couple tournaments on the weekends. I was in decent shape. But now, I walk around like Frankenstein, dragging my feet and moaning. I’m hoping that this is something that can be easily remedied by hitting the gym in the mornings. The sloth life is not for me!

Then the rest of the week, I’m in school. I decided to go back to school and get my law degree. Next to business, I think law is one of those degrees that one can use in the real world. It’s tough and the competition is young and hungry. They ask questions and I think to myself, “they are so young and they have no idea what the world has in store for them.” I do find myself to be a better student than I remember. I’m more organized, more conscious of deadlines. I guess the work experience paid off. I think in this aspect, I have the upper hand. I am worried that I won’t get into my first pick law school (Loyola). But I am making every effort to reach that goal.

There’s a saying that I love and I think about it often as I am in the middle of these young whipper snappers with their “know it all” attitudes and low rise jeans and it goes like this… “El diablo es sabio por ser viejo, no por ser diablo” which means “The Devil is wise because he is old not because he is the Devil”.