Ouch...maybe I am getting old?

Ok, so I'm getting towards middle age and in Roman times probably would have been considered old but I'm not quite over the hill yet! Today I have felt just a little bit older. My back has been hurting I believe brought on my some high jinx at a party on Friday night. 

I was being sensible; driving so no drinking for me. However, the music plays and a bit of dancing just had to happen. Not Dad dancing mind you, well I don't think so anyway, no, no, no some good dancing; dancing with the beat, flashdance style (of course onlookers may have seen more Dad dancing than I care to recall). Then another partygoer, who had had a bit of flavoured ethanol beverage, decided to jump on my back. In itself this was ok and no damage was done.


 
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The next morning I was innocently bending down to put a saucepan away in the kitchen cupboard and then I felt the twinge of the muscles in my back complaining. No doubt fuelled by my overenthusiastic dance moves and the weight of a grown man. This happens every so often (not the grown man on my back) and it is a reminder that I am not quite as young as I used to be.

I'm quite happy being 40. I actually feel that the age of 40 can be worn like a badge of honour. A milestone reached. I have no desire to be 18 again. The life experiences are too valuable.

I just have to remember that I can't quite do all the things I used to do, my hair is going grey and I can't touch my toes but of course as the saying goes, there is still plenty of life in the old dog yet!

Now, where are those painkillers?

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  1. Anonymous16 July 2012 at 21:19

    Grey hair can look very distinguished ;)

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