Why 30 is the new 60

So when people read my post last week, a number of people seemed to have read it but not bothered to comment on it. Now LISTEN UP people, I don't care if you have 4 paragraphs to write, 2 lines, or just want to GOIYYAN ! to my post, you better move your fingers a little and type out a comment. Yes I know my blogs aren't that important to your lives, but it makes me feel a little more self important, and so in order to amuse me, lets start building up a pretend fan base ?

    The reason why I've taken up such an adverse reaction to people commenting is that one such person apparently " I won't comment on the main content...but i love ur blog just for one line..."but then we were young back then". Now since I don't like embarrassing people on a public forum like this, and also because I don't admit to knowing this person at most times, I won't mention his name but suffice to say you old old man, if I'm 25 your 45 and if I feel 45 you must be feeling 70. And next time, post a comment here instead of bloody old facebook. In the words of Red Foreman " DUMBASS".

        I will admit though that his comment did intrigue me into wondering why I did write that line out in the blog. Do I really feel " OLD " ?. Is age somehow catching up on me ? Am I not at the stage where the head of my college once said " Entry is not important , Exit ees vonly important, because these guyses are in their youths ". Am I not still in my youth ? Should I not be feeling young and vibrant and etc etc and whatever nonsense comes on in those ridiculously early morning shows about self help and positive thinking ? Why is it then that all I want to do is sleep / eat / play XBox / Watch T.V. and feel like telling people who want me to come skiiing, " Oh I'm too old for that now ". 

    I've come to realize, that yes, for some reason or another, I do feel a little older than I did a while back. Now I'm sure some smart ass is thinking, well of course you dolt, if your older by 2 years, then you obviously will fell older. Ignoring such drivel and frivolous arguments aside,  what I mean is I really do feel OLD. Not that I'm going through a midlife crisis or anything, but somehow the things that I used to be able to do, and also want do when I was younger ,I really don't seem to have the enthusiasm for too much nowadays. I mean, stuff like staying up the whole night gaming, or staying up the whole night watching movies / sitcoms or just being able to be on what I call high - energy mode the whole day.

It's when I was feeling all down in the dumps because of this that I realized the root cause of this problem. I mean I'm, only 24, still mange to have quite a bit of fun, and still seem to be able to sleep long long hours. Playing video games etc is never a problem either, so why do I feel old ? And here's the answer to this, and its not something that one really expects. Its the kids. Yes, I don't mean my kids, but I mean kids in general. I think kinds nowadays seem to grow up too fast, seem to grow too quickly, and make us feel bad in the process. It's not that I have anything against them, I think kids nowadays are smarter, quicker and sharper than any of us could even hope to be when we were that young.

    Let me explain as to why I really think that's the case. I've been fortunate (some cases unfortunate) to have been around plenty of kids in the little while I've spent here. And it's never ceased to amaze me how intelligent they are, how much bigger a mouth they have (I mean that in a good way) and how much sharper they are. When I say that I mean street smart, they're quick to latch on things, they know when your giving them crap and they're smart enough to come back with a retort. They learn things a lot faster than you, they also seem to able to learn a lot more than you, and make you feel pretty stupid at times. It almost seems to me as if kids grow up faster these days and this progression is so rapid, that often on, when the pace slows down , they feel stagnated. What I mean to say by this is that compared to the previous generation. we were probably a lot quicker and learn;t stuff faster, but that's an age gap of 25 years or so, and you would obviously expect  things to progress more rapidly then. But its been extremely surprising to see how much more rapdily kids are learning things, and these are kids maybe 10-11 years younger than. Trust me there's no way when I was 10 years old that I would be able buy a music album on an ipod touch even if someone paid me to do it, leave alone use my dad's credit card. No chance of me sitting up for 4 hours to do howmwork, actually making a brochure, printing it out and showing it to my parents and getting them to sign off. On a sunday night, I saw football games, and whatever games were on, HW just had to wait till I had time to do it.

  What intrigues me and also makes me extremely proud is that although we would expect kids nowadays to be bratty, irresponsible and disrespectful, I find that they are, for the most part quite the opposite of that. Although there might not be the same approach that we or our parents had to the more serious aspects of life, I find their attitude refreshing and what more important , they get the job done. While we worry about their distractions, the temptations that modern world present and  so on so forth, I find a reassuring calmness about them. I think we always continue to think of elders as being wise and knowledgeable, but sometimes, its not always how you get to a place, so long as you get to it.

  I'm not sure what the message I was trying to send out is, but I guess most of my blogs are random musings!