You’re Getting Old

No one over 40 likes to be reminded that they’re getting old. For instance, let’s take EB as an example of youth gone wrong. I happen to know, for example, that’s she’s taken (as of this second) she has sucked in 446+ million breaths of air, her cold heart has beaten over 2 billion times, she’s seen the moon circle the Earth almost 750 times. In short, she’s old. Let’s just call a spade, a spade. She’s OLD OLD OLD!

My dear departed dad would always respond to the question, “How are you doing” by saying “I’m still breathing, and that sure beats the alternative.” He was old when he said that. As old as EB is now. She’s still taking in air and it beats the alternative, but she’s still OLD.

She’s so old, in fact, that:

April 26th, 1986: A catastrophic nuclear accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
Over half her life ago!

• She was 14 when Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland
• She was 16 when the war in Vietnam ended.
• She was 20 when then president Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his home town of Plains, Georgia. I mention this because EB is a Southern girl.

You’re probably thinking I spent a great deal of time looking up all this stuff about EB (yes, actually, all of it is true). But it only took a few seconds to dig into ancient past and dredge up all kinds of goodies.

By now you’re probably puffing out your cheeks, getting ready to explode into a frenzy of explictives, and close your browser in disgust because you think I’m ranting and raving just to tell you how really OLD EB is — but of course, you’d be wrong, because, like most of the time, I have a point, but love to build up your suspenders before I get to it. I like the hissing sound you make while you read this wondering if I have a point, and if I do, am I ever going to get to it.

Yes, my friend, I am. And the point is that there is a really interesing Web site where you can type in your date of birth and get a full list of interesting facts about your age– and more importantly – remind you just how old you really are. While it may make you wince to see how many days old you are, or how many breaths you’ve taken, how many miles you’ve traveled, some of the history-making things that have happened during your LONG lifetime, and much more, you can also run a report on your friends, especially those who are older than you — if there are any 🙂 — and send them a link to their “age report” just to remind them how really old they are.

The site is called You’re Getting Old and you can learn some really interesting facts and be reminded over and over and over again just how old you really are. So muster up some courage and come along with me and be reminded that YOU’RE GETTING OLD!

And if you feel really depressed after visiting this site, just remember our old friend EB — she’s OLD, OLD, OLD, I tells ya!