Being older.

One of my favourite things about being older, is being who you are and not giving a shit if someone else doesn't like it. I am happy that ever since I have been over 30, I have not been embarrassed to wear stupid hats in public, this includes hats in the rain and those hats for cold weather that have ear flaps that tie up over your head. I wore my ear flap hat tonight and a man in the street said (as he was walking past) "that hat's stupid". Don't like my hat eh? I'll wear it again especially for you. In fact, I might even follow you home wearing it so all your friends think I am with you, and you have a stupid-hat-friend.

I like being older, I am not bound by dumbass kid rules any more. I don't have to have new clothes or know who is number 1 in the charts, in fact, I know if you staked my life on it I couldn't tell you who is number 1, or indeed, the names of anyone who has been number 1 for the past 8 years. Were the Spice Girls around then? that might be the last number 1 I actually remember.

I watched a "round up" of the year, as is so often the programming choices at this time of year. I didn't know about virtually anything that had happened this past year. It was all like "...and who could forget the scandal of Darni confessing she slept with Bret?" - who and slept with who? I am so out of date.

It's all ok, I like being older. I can wear flat shoes and silly hats and coats that are warm instead of pretty and I don't have to shave my legs every couple of days if I don't want. Dan has got use to me feeling like The Fly in bed when I haven't shaved for two weeks.

Here's a real good story if you are far enough away from it to be nostalgic about your youth - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Gqp_hYbpg"]Right Field[/url] by Peter, Paul and Mary.
How can you not just love that?

I posted this on a message board I am on. The kids were annoying me with their music tastes - I won't go in to detail, but suffice to say, none of it actually qualified as music.

I seriously think a lot of "our" music that young people don't like is just because they are not old enough to associate with it yet. They like noise but they can't get in to stories, they can't feel what the singer is saying because they just don't have the experience. Like a 12 year old watching American Beauty. You can like the movie, but you have to be older to really get it. The kids will disagree with me, but as Lester said, you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.

:)