Forty-Two and Felicitous

[ltmurnau]

42 today, 42 today....

Finally I am starting to feel old and my body is starting to fail me. But I know this state of affairs will not last, at least not mentally.

I was just trying to plot my mental age, which I think varies like a sine wave, against my advancing physical, or rather chronological age. For example, when I was 15 or so, my outlook was much like that of a stereotypical 45 year old - crusty and nasty and conservative. When I was about 27, I felt practically 16, full of juice and beans! At 42, I feel I have the outlook of a 34 year old, when I'm 50 I'll feel 50, and then hopefully a long slide into my third childhood and irreversible senility by age 73 or so.

Unfortunately, I can't get Excel to plot this sort of thing for me, so you will just have to imagine the chart....

Comments

[ilna.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday and a merry new-found youth to you :) !

I was pretty obnoxious when a teenager too, i'm much younger than that now :)

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I was obnoxious in the manner of someone trying to be a living reproach to my parents: they smoked and drank, so I didn't, read all the Ayn Rand I could get my hands on, and so forth. Thankfully, I recovered from that last one.