Have you had those experiences, where some people ask how old you are, and you JOKINGly answered " 17... " or... "20..." or any number less than 30, but deep deep down you know that you're NOT?! No?
Or maybe using that phrase " I am 17 at heart. " Because that's your defense. You may be old but always young at heart. Um... Yeah....
It's good to have those spirits. For all we know, it's nice to be young... Aaah, so thoughtless and carefree. I mean it, it's nice to be doubted that you're old. I still remember about few years ago, when I was still living abroad, every time I ventured into a casino, (not that I like gambling, that casino just happened to be near where I live, and there's a cinema there. So it's a shortcut *wink wink*. No seriously, I never gamble. Just can't afford it. :p) ... I was always being asked for an ID, to proof that I was over 18. I mean, seriously, I tried to dress well. Not in t-shirt or jeans with holes somewhere. I wore dress! And high-heeled shoes! So mature. Yet the security guards were not convinced and believed I am around 16 *cough* until I showed them my driving license, which was Indonesian driving license by the way. Um... don't they know that in Indonesia , it's easy to fake your age in the driving license? Heck I even knew a 13 year-old boy who had a license that confirmed him as a 19 year-old. Riiiight.......
So we do get old. We can't deny it. Why deny it? Although I know, it's rather hard to accept that we're not as young as we were. And maybe we just really have to realize that, after some reality things were really thrown to your face and just say "C'mon admit it! You're OLD!". And here are some that hit me.....
-> When I no longer like boy bands....
Well I still like the OLD boy bands. You know, when they were boy bands in MY era. Which they are old dudes by now. I still remember around *cough* 15 years ago, I was so crazed up about boy bands. I would go screaming all 'ooooh... aaaah...' every time they were on the radio or TVs, just like the teenagers now. Now? How am I supposed to like them when the oldest member of the band is actually way younger than me? *facepalm* Not that I hate their songs... Just not really a fan of them anymore.
-> Or no longer like music that requires too much energy to enjoy...
This is where I was torn at heart. You see, I always thought that the music in the nightclub was the coolest genre of music. I did like the beats. And it's always fun to dance to the beat. I just don't have the energy for clubbing anymore. Not that I was a club-craze chick back then, I think I went to club probably only around 5 or 6 times. But I did enjoy the music. I even had some CDs full of it. Now I think those CDs are somewhere.... um.. missing.
-> When I get dizzy looking at bright colors constantly....
Another wake-up call thing, is when I can no longer stand seeing cute girly colors for my phone theme. Ha! See! How cute are these?
It's a free blackberry theme by the way, which for a moment, hypnotized me with the bright colors, cute fonts, cute candy icons, and made me screaming KYAAAA KAWAII!! like a little girl again. It even took control of my mind and made me consciously purchased TWO themes with the same cuteness. Only to realize, after two days of using the themes, I can't stand to look at it anymore, and I am back using the more simpler theme. And I deleted the cute themes. I got dizzy. That's right. DIZZY for looking at something THAT CUTE?! That means you're old, girl..... C'mon, your own body can't take it. It's like a totally different era, when you used to be able NOT SLEEPING for 2 days, or maybe went to sleep at 4 AM, now you're sleepy already at 10 PM.
-> When my desktop backgrounds no longer feature chibi anime characters....
I like mangas. And animes. I still like them by the way 'til now. But the love has shifted. Yup.
The teenager me *cough* would read and watch them EVERYDAY, and if you log in into my computer, you'd see something like these :
Or something else cuter that features cute chibi characters like mini Luffy of One Piece or mini Sakura-chan from Cardcaptor Sakura, or 5 years ago I still collect Naruto wallpapers!!!
NOW my desktop backgrounds are.....
FOOD !!!!!!!!!!!
And LOTS of them.......
'Cause you know... Old people... need food.....
No?
Or maybe because as we get older, we just like to sit down and munch, rather than go out adventuring somewhere wild. Uh huh.....
Go on, deny it, because you can't. Look at the young teenagers, so full up of energy, running around to do crazy things. Older people? Having culinary-trips. Seriously admit it. You go all the way to other towns, not to do sailings, or flying fox things, or bungee-jumping (which I NEVER dare enough to try), or something. But to eat. And it's getting worse when you're old enough to have grandchildren. True story.... My own mom does it. With her friends. Willing to travel somewhere far away. Just to eat the local culinary.
And I think I already do the same thing. The last trip I went through, I ended up eating more than shopping.
-> When the shortened messages annoys me like a trapped ant in the pants....
Aaaah teenagers... So carefree, so thoughtless, so creative.... Okay back then, when the mobile phone can only use 160 characters per message, and the cost of the message itself is more expensive than it is right now, it's totally understandable to shorten your text. You know... Like using 'u' instead of 'you' ... 'thx' instead of the full 'thank you'... And I did it too, way back then... It's so cool and hip.
Now it annoys me a lot when young people replace 'nya' with 'x'... where the hell did that X come from??!
Or when they use numbers as letters. 53r10u5|_y? You have smartphones nowadays!
FULL QWERTY keypads. And the cost of the message doesn't really cost much by the way. But okay, maybe my old mind can no longer see it as cool and hip anymore.
And I finally have to surrender and admit, geez, I am no longer young.....
What other wake-up-calls for being old? Maybe now you have to work for living, instead of robbing the parent's money? Maybe now you have to maintain your image, instead of being so carefree?
