Five signs that I’m getting old.
1. I need to be asleep by midnight, otherwise I’ll be a zombie the next day. It used to be that K and I would hang out with friends on Friday nights till the wee hours of Saturday morning. We’d catch a movie (or two), go bowling, and still have energy to go to Simpang Bedok for roti prata and coffee after. Now, K and I count ourselves lucky if we can sit through a 11pm show without nodding off.
2. When I see teenage couples clinging like leeches, I shake my head in disdain, quite forgetting that I was like them not so very long ago. Yeah, I was like them not just on the train, but on the bus, and in the park, and in dark places. You know. You were once like them too.
3. I am throwing out all my Aldo and Pedder Red shoes for Clarks and Ecco. Heel heights should be no more than two inches. Anything higher than that is to be kept in storage and given an airing at wedding dinners.
4. I feel uncomfortable about wearing low necklines anywhere except to a formal event. Going to church is not a formal event. I also don’t like any skirt or dress that doesn’t fall just a hair’s breath above my knee. This annoys online shop owners to no end because I keep asking for the length of every dress that they put up for sale.
5. I’m bothered by newly discovered freckles on my face. When I was young, I wanted freckles just like Megan Follows in Anne of Green Gables. I also wanted a boyfriend who looked just like Gilbert Blythe but clearly, you can’t have everything you wish for.
I wonder what I will be like when I’m twice my current age.
February 23, 2012
One response to Five signs that I’m getting old.
i love anne of green gables! i wanted to grow up to be like her!
you’re right about the growing old part. nowadays I don’t hang out with the group who goes drinking on week nights. i’d rather be at home in my pjs by 10pm.