Re: To New Chapters...
This is a simple thing...and could almost as easily have been a minor vent. But for whatever reason, I'm happy about it, rather than annoyed...
I just realized, earlier today, that I've been inadvertently lying to people about my age for several months, now. I've been telling people for a while that I was 47...
A few weeks ago, I started having some nagging doubts about that, because the math didn't work out for the class reunion I'll be having in a couple of years...if my age calculations had been right, it would have meant I graduated high school at 19...and that just isn't the case.
Then, at work this afternoon, I realized that I was born in an even-numbered year...and this was an even-numbered year...which meant that my age had to be an even number for the math to work. Call it an extended senior moment, or a months-long brain fart, I guess...but just to make sure I wasn't wrong, I counted again. On my fingers.
46, not 47. Not that it matters all that much...I tell people that you're only as old as you let yourself feel, which means, on any given day, I'm actually somewhere between 14 and 85...but most consistently, hover around my late 20's or early 30's. But, still...not only do I not look as old as I really am, I'm also not as old as I thought.