Adultness

What are adults? Grown up children? Boring entities? Hmmm....Guess it depends on who is defining them.

When you were 10 - how old were your parents? Did you think of them as "old?" How old are you now? Is it near that age? And do you see yourself as old?

A friend of mine is turning 75 in March - I just had a birthday. We were talking about how old we were and why it seems so strange that our kids have aged but we had not - even tho we met 43 years ago! Yes - 43 years have gone by and there are markers to indicate that - but are we old? older? We laugh about this - it's an annual giggle - almost always on my and her birthday. It's become our January/March ritual.

I've re-connected with people I was friends with as a child and some from previous work situations - we all feel we are in better shape mentally and physically than we were way back when.. and looking at some old photos - it does seem true. Many of us have moved into different careers and lives than we had 30 and 40 years ago. Some of us have kids in their 20's and some have grandkids in their 20's.... at one point in our lives we shared a lot of similarities but now we live very different lives and do not have as much in common.

Yes adults do change - and we continue growing and changing - so after many years - there is a greater difference between adults of the same age than between children of the same age...