Age rage?

12 Mar 2011 2 Comments

by livelifequeensize in Experiences, Expressions, Friends, People Tags: Age, Feel young

Aah! So am I upset?
It is not just another conversation because I have definitely been thinking about it for some hours now even without realizing. So one of my friends met me after three months and her first spontaneous and straight-from-the-heart reaction was “Oh my God! You look old!”
Really??? I mean really???
And even if it is true, how does it matter? I remember those uncountable times till my recent past when my friends would say- “You are such a kidzee”, “When will you grow up?”, “Can’t really guess how old are you?”, “You still look like a college student” etc.
One of the best to recollect compliments (yeah now I definitely feel it was a compliment!) off course exaggerated one that it was-
“Did you begin bathing in anti-ageing creams when you were in school and is that why you stopped ageing thereafter…such that even when you are a working professional you still look like a school girl?” I would just laugh at it and move on.
So how could I take such a compliment without any second thoughts and why can’t I take a piece of critic (if you call it so!) gracefully? No. I don’t want to hear the crap that it is human nature to feel flattered and angered and bla bla. From when has it started affecting me…as I completely agree with a friend of mine who says, “Age is just a number!”
Think of all those days K3 when people treated you like a kid and you truly wanted to grow up. You secretly desired to be taken seriously and not be disregarded just because you were youngest of the lot – be it at home, in school or at work.  So why am I looking for consolations- that another friend with this friend said, “You look more mature and professional.” Of course this one has more positive connotation. But yeah I don’t mind if I look my age because ultimately age is just a number. It is all about how young you feel at heart, right? Now you might think that I’m talking like a real loser trying to be philosophical about the age and the theories associated with it.  But believe me I’m a kind of girl who never even takes a microsecond to go public about my age (well evidence could be one of my blog posts) even if I have repeatedly heard the cliché that a woman should not reveal her true age etc..
I’m glad and I hope my new-found maturity works to my advantage as I enter a tough professional world. So the purpose of this post is just to shake out even the slightest modicum of discomfort I felt about being labeled old. Because to me, age CANNOT diminish my spirit and enthusiasm to live life queen-size… today, tomorrow and always.

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