A week from today (Oct 13) is my birthday. Normally, I’d let that pretty much slide blog-wise but I’ve been inspired by our good friend Meagan (my personal favorite author of quarter-century-crisis roman a clefs) who has been blogging about turning 30. So I thought I’d blog about turning 55, which age I will turn next Saturday.
Let me start with the obvious: holy shit, I’m turning 55!!!! So in honor of this catastrophic event, I thought I’d make a list of random facts in honor of, well, the obvious reason.
Initially it was going to be a list of 55 things. But then I started and realized that I was getting bored with the whole idea by about thing 10. But still! So here goes:
- I get bored pretty easily
Other than the list of random facts about me, I’ve also been thinking about what I really want to be when I grow up. This has really bugged me over the years – this state of constant uncertainty. It’s partly why I took six years to get my undergraduate degree (look! a stray fact about me). I’m always looking ahead to what’s next rather than focusing on what is right in front of me. Or I’m thinking how if I choose to do Thing X I will, in no time at all, find Thing Y that will undoubtedly be the better thing. This has definitely impacted my climb up the proverbial corporate ladder climb. In fact, it has meant that I never even saw the ladder -hell – ever even realized that there was a ladder, much less climbed it. ANYway.
In the past year I think I’ve finally figured it out. I want to be a honey badger.
I want to be that bad ass honey badger who can get snake bit, lose consciousness for a while but then wake up and eat that damn snake. And enjoy it! THAT’s what I want to be when I grow up!
Turning 55 also means that I’m in a new age group. Now that I have decided to be a honey badger I can embrace my inner hope that attrition and arthritis will slowly but surely start to take out my competition and I will finally win my damn age group. Getting older as it happens isn’t so hard, the real trick is to just not give a shit. I’m working on it.
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4 responses to “Thoughts on my new age group”
The Mayans give a new born the spirit of an animal. Maybe you have ancestral Mayan in your blood:)
55! Wow! Life still gets better and better.
You and Chuck are a perfect couple; may you have another 55 years together.
55 means you really don’t give a shit-just like the honey badger! Love it, have a great birthday, and you are entitled to new discounts! Like at Ihop! whoo hoo!
Ha!! Love this. So funny. And happy early birthday!! Yeah, I got bored too.