I wrote this last year and now I am only 132 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes from the big 5 0 ! Not that I’m struggling with that at all 🙂
I am just now submitting last week’s Weekly Writing Challenge, which said, in summary, “to explore what age means to you”.
In a mere one year and seven months, I will be as old as the cassette tape. How old is that you ask? Well, that would be a half-century, fifty years old, and a milestone. I have heard it called the youth of old age. Currently, I am hanging out in the old age of youth.
When I was a mere youngster, I viewed the elderly with wonder. I could often make them smile with my antics and as I have mentioned before, I coveted attention. My wrinkly friends were interesting with their silver hair and glasses, and their candy producing pockets. I remember shrieking with delight as they stole my nose, or tickled my tummy.
Although I was certainly raised to have the utmost respect for my elders…
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Long walks and dark chocolate 
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