Feeling Your Age

sixty five. I asked him, how's it feeling, And it's funny. We a the thing we came to we both agree on. People say age is nothing but a number, and that is true, maybe not for how people think when they say it, but it's here, and here's my thought on that. It's you're right, M. When you turn twenty one, there is no specific feeling for twenty one. We assign thoughts about turning twenty one. We assign a M. It's a

milestone marker. So there's no official If it makes this make sense, there's no official feeling when you're when you turn twenty one, a certain feeling doesn't happen or not happen all of a sudden, cause it's it's literally up to you how you feel in twenty one, it's brought off. The feelings are brought on by you. So fifty sixty or I was saying a think life, it's the same thing. But I was saying for me, this is the first year twenty twenty four that I feel this age group

and that is the fifty five and up crowd. I actually kind of feel it. There was no clique. Like I said on my birthday on May tenth, I didn't just suddenly feel a certain way that was a sign to that age fifty five. But I am feeling the generalness of what this age can feel. I can bring. We're talking about our parents or aging parents, who's left, who's older than us, the younger generation, they what they're saying and doing. You We're talking about all kinds of stuff,

and that's what's really interest seem to me. It's like, Wow, this is the first year I'm really feeling older. I was I trained the other day and a guy was like, oh, about the same age. Now, I'm thinking he was actually younger. I looked at him and I thought he thought he was thirties and forties. He goes, well, I'm fifty. He looked good for his age. I was like, so I do look fifty to him. It was the first time someone said I looked like I was in my fifties.

Be those were said in my forties. I even got thirty eight, thirty nine, but I just get forties. I'm like, well, I almost look First, I was like, I must look tired. Yeah, I mostly tired. That's crazy. No, But it was like, now look in the mirror, and I'm like, okay, look at my hands, look a little older. Why I take care of my skin and stuff my face. It was like looking looking a little older and still take care

of myself. But it's like, wow, I'm not ashamed of it or like I wasn't hurt by it, but just like it just kind of caught me off guard. Like I to some folks, I'm probably an old man. That's how I'm viewed. And but I'm also feeling the weight of the grown children, the grandchildren, the aging parents, that whole they're so sandwich direction thing I've talked about before. I'm feeling it this year and also in my work.

My age has come in handy and it's been a benefit to me getting some of these gigs, to me getting some of the clients, and for me to come across as credible. It's given me gravitas. I do have letters after my name. I do have experiences, you know. And my friend and I am going back toys talking about life. We're able to share experiences because he's well traveled. I'm well traveled. He's well read. I'm well read. He's just he's lived sixty five years. I lived thirty five years.

That's why I appreciate is that we can talk and have conversations about long ranging topics and it's just, oh, it's okay. And I think that's what's really important. I think people almost forget that we can do that and it's okay. But age brings that. But in everyday life, I don't always feel any age, right. I just feel like James. I don't know that. I don't know what that means, but I just feel like I'm meet But

there's no particular age. There are times when I feel very youthful, and there are times I feel like I like I should be. I'm one foot in the grave the money, know how I am. I'm also at that age and many of you guys wanna relate to this where I am, where I have a pain or an ache somewhere in my body, somewhere even you know. We were talking last night for a last night about getting dinner, and I was like, I don't wanna walk three blocks up and down these secle streets to go over to

that place. So I the old days I've been screaming and run down the street, but those days are over. My friend Michelle, I'm talking to her and she's just like, we're all we're all this around the same age and we all have the same I have younger friends, and I watched them navigate stuff, and I'm like, that's how I used to be. I get it. So when they view they look at me, and they view me sometimes

I'm just an old guid to them. I mean it's well meaning or not or happiest or whatever, but it's kind of like I say something they're like, oh my god, that's such a one of my friends coming up Boomer the other day and I'm like, oh my god, I heard I the way I said. I said, Yeah, I can see why it sounds that way, and I stand by what I said, Like I'm not apologizing I did say that, I mentioned it, and that's life, Like, oh my god, it's crazy. So yeah, it's it's it's a trip,

say least those are thoughts. Well, I'm here in San Francisco, here for work, and I'm also a house and cats sitting, and he's talking to a good friend and brings all reflection a little bit. Now he's he's left to go on a trip. When I watched his house, I'll see when he gets back. But I was like, yeah, okay, and actually what's funny is and they don't listen to my shows anyway, but I'm going to They don't let my kids will Grantkis will know this. I'm gonna go

see them after I leave. I'm gonna stop by their place my way home and surprise them. I love surprising them. I love just gonna show him going Hi. I love to reading that, so I'm gonna do that. I'm my bike. I'm James On Junior. This is fifty plus. I'd love to hear from you also, and if you have any thoughts of your own about this and stuff, please where we find this on the audio sphere comments. I like to read your comments, like subscribing and rate. This is

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