"Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?" Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal's character in City Slickers, 1991)ok. so this was hilarious in 1991...I was 22.
we've been talking a bit about aging: sagging, hair color, wrinkles, etc. it has been determined after many discussions and clinical analysis that aging should be avoided :-) too much maintenance and prep time involved every day.
we'll take the wisdom and peace, the 'fruits' of our labor and the friends. we've just decided to dump the other junk.
really, what it comes down to is this. all of those jokes we made about hair dye and botox? not so funny anymore. in fact, we may start clipping two-for-one coupons!
