Getting Old

   As my eyes opened this morning I was greeted by a soft brightness in our bedroom. My first thoughts were that my wife had gotten up before me and had left the bathroom light on. Further assessment revealed that it was not a man made light source but the morning sun filtering through the blinds. It was at this point in time I glanced at my watch, 7:30 Wow I haven’t slept in till 7:30 for a long time.
   A sense of guilt tried to wiggle into my mind, because I had let half of the day slip away. It was at this point that I realized I was getting old. If sleeping in until 7:30 makes you feel like you have wasted valuable time, then you’re getting old.
   I continued to stay in bed and think about stuff.   Getting old was the theme.   When parts of your body start to talk to you, body parts that have been quite up till this point in your life, you need to listen to them, because we are all living on borrowed time here. Take my ears and nose for example, for some unknown reason, my ears and nose have decided to sprout hair. I guess I have always had hair in those areas, but never noticed any outcropping of underbrush, until recently, probably due to do some genetic code that at a certain age, the ear and nose hair gene, kicks into high gear.
   Since I have noticed this phenomenon in my own body I have done a survey of other men in my age range.   I noticed that some men are seemingly unaware of the confluent growth of hair in their ears and nose. And surprisingly some guys pull it off, going into my research project I had the assumption” that hair proliferation from the ears and nose of men 40 to 70, would be gross.”   I was wrong, I have to admit there is a certain type of man, the rugged outdoorsy types whose facial features are enhanced by the tufts of hair reaching out from their ears and nose; the rest of us probably not.
   I could add the unibrow to this equation also; I do not have to worry about mine because the hairdresser waxes this for me every time I get a haircut. However………. I am on my second set of hair clippers. These clipper are “Just For Men” and come accessorized with many attachments that are designed to remove hair from anywhere on your body your ears and nose included. I have a box of “Just For Men” hair color in the closet, but have not used it yet. The gradual graying of my hair does not bother me in the least, I do not think I could pull of the fuzzy ear look though, call it vanity if you will, I just think having caterpillars crawling out of my ears would not be appealing.
   So that’s how my day started and now I sit before my lap top trying to come up with something to write about, hey nobody forces you to read this!

A few other thoughts about getting old; you get bummed out because you say “bummed out.” You actually remember Betamax, NPR is one of your preset stations on your car radio, When your yearly physical ends with the Doctor telling you that “that’s normal for a guy your age.”

Things don’t bother you like they use to, your grand kids do things that you think is cute but drew swift and severe punishment for your own kids when they did the same things as toddlers.
So that’s how my day started and now I sit before my lap top trying to come up with something to write about, opps I already said that.

~Owen Burgin~

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Posted: 02/26/2012 - by Owen Burgin

Getting Old

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