How time flies

Wrote this during my birthday. Was feeling nostalgic and whimsicle too

Woke up in the morning,
Goes thru my routines,
I stand before the mirror,
I stare at the person in front.

I used to wonder why people do this,
Obsessed with those lines
We call wrinkles,
The sagging muscles
Thinning and whitening hair
It is just a number,
If you are young at heart,
You can be eighteen everyday.

I guess found the answer.
When you bones starts to crack
Like un-oiled machines,
When things that used to take you seconds becomes hours,
When your eyes starts to go blurry,
Your body aches all over just doing simple exercises
Unlike before.

There is no escape from reality
Age is catching up to you.
You can delude yourself and deny the fact
But the mirror does not lie.
Oh bummer....
I am a year older today
How time flies....
However,
Wrinkles or not,
Life goes on,
Well wishes came flooding in from friends and family,
Which brings a smile to my face,
At least I am not lonely
Sad or happy....
Time waits for nobody
Might as well party away.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

for me, it's always been just a relative thing...we are only as old or young as we feel....
especially if we reach a mutual understanding with that thing called "age"---
j..

[Stone]

So true.....i teaches. When my students asked for my age, I told them I am 98....the funniest thing is they actually remembered when someone asked the following year. They answered 99 for me. Guess it is the little things like this that warms my heart makes life great at any age.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And Yay, yes party away! A write that encapsulates everyone over 30s feelings these days when everything is celebrity and now and pristine.