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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/25/2011 04:14 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 03/25/2011 04:44 PM
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Getting Old is Just a change of Perspective . . .~by Humor Columnist, The Copper Curmudgeon
When I was a kid my Grandpa used to say, “You know when you are getting old because you hear the snap, crackle and pop and you haven’t poured the milk on your Rice Krispies yet.” That always struck me as funny because I loved listening to that noise when the milk went on my Rice Krispies. But this was also the same man that carried a flask in his shirt pocket that was for, “Snakebite and moonstroke”. But then I hit fifty something . . . and one morning I was walking down the hallway, my left elbow popped, then my right knee snapped and both my feet made bone noises that . . . well I wouldn’t call it a crackle . . . and Grandpa’s saying wasn’t so darn funny anymore . . . just a change of perspective......
When we are kids in our innocence we want to be like the older kids . . . because heaven knows that’s better. The first goal is to be a teenager, then sixteen is next so we get that magic driver’s license and “freedom”. Of course all High Schoolers want to be the big man on campus and senior year was the best . . . just a change of perspective.
Now that we are out of High School most people that go to college find themselves back on the bottom rung after just having achieved almost celebrity status in High School because now we are lowly freshman on a college campus . . . so here again getting older is just a change of perspective.
Of course during college we can’t wait to turn twenty-one . . . anybody remember that? Of course we do . . . study sessions at the bar with pitchers of beer and shots of everything but no books . . . and tell us what YOU did at spring break.
Still have those spring break pictures you hide from your spouse and the kids? Now you are telling your cute little daughter why spring break is a bad place . . . except for when you were there you told your mom everyone does it . . . just a change of perspective.
So we graduate college and start the job hunting process and maybe even the spouse hunting process or maybe both. The daily activity of working is a serious regimen that interfered with meeting up with the old friends and partying all night . . . that got some getting used to and we wanted to become twenty-five so our car insurance rates dropped and the boss would look at you more favorably for that promotion because now he looks at you like a young-pimple-faced-know-it-all-college-puke . . . just a change of perspective.
After a few years and a number of promotions or maybe a job change then probably getting married what’s next? Yep . . . kids. Your mom says they are God’s blessings . . . this is the same woman that told you when you came in late at eighteen smelling of beer and cigarettes she hoped you had kids just like yourself someday . . . ? It’s a sly little smile and a wink at your dad that concerns you because they know you are entering a whole new world . . . they’ve been there and done that and can’t wait to watch you now . . . just a change of perspective.
OMG . . . how the hell did I turn forty-five? And that cute little wife is right there too . . . wasn’t it just last month we were thirty??? And my oldest daughter is bringing some guy over for dinner Sunday and she is in the kitchen with my wife giggling . . . this is not good.
Oh sure . . . the kid shows up Sunday, on time, with flowers for both girlfriend and the mother plus he has a new Buck knife for me because he knows I like to hunt and fish . . . and the daughter has this silly look on her face as she gazes at the boy which tells me he is going to cost me a lot of money next June and I’m going to have to lose weight to fit in a tux because no one wants the father of the bride to look like a penguin when he walks his daughter down the aisle. Just another change of perspective.
Here in a few weeks I turn fifty-nine . . . I can’t remember how that happened? I had a lot of fun the last few years and just this last week was blessed with grandchild number ten . . . I’m settling in to the fact that being Grandpa is a really good place in life. I no longer am expected to help anyone move because first I tell them hell no and second because they think I’m too old. But they don’t hesitate to borrow my pick-up when moving day comes. Just a change of perspective.
So now I am trying to figure out where the brakes are on this runaway train called “Getting Older” that keeps going faster each year and I’m wondering how close I am to the last Station . . . my oldest boy tells me we still have too many fishing trips left in life so I am to stay away from any voices telling me to go towards the light.
There is one thing though . . . I am thinking about buying that flask for my shirt pocket just in case . . . because we do have snakes in Copper and did you see how close the moon was to us last week? I might get moonstroke . . . just a change of perspective.
I know . . . just sit here and be quiet . . .
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