Memo to my body. I am 32. Just recently turned 32. I work out several times per week, running, lifting weights, etc. I try to keep you healthy by spending time in the sun, eating as much candy as I can find, and taking my medication regularly.
So do not think for one minute that I find it acceptable for you to start giving me troubles when I try to demonstrate a somersault for my 2 year old daughter. I do not expect shooting pain in my shoulder or general aches and pains to follow this sort of activity.
Someone needs to tell that to those olympic athletes (not that I’m comparing myself, mind you…)
Someone has to show her how to do all this cool stuff, it’s part of the fun of being dad. “are you OK, daddy?” is not supposed to be what I hear after something like this. After some of the other stupid things I have done, surely, but not this.
Damn, man, I figured out that my body was on the decline when I hit 24. You’re definitely old. Honestly, though, I’m only 27 (28 in 2 months), and I already feel like I expected 38 to feel. I can’t even imagine how I’ll fell when I hit 40. I thought that those wierd back aches and muscle twinges wouldn’t happen until at least the 40s or 50s. How surprised I was when they started in my mid 20s. How quickly the mighty fall. Of course, it may be exacerbated by the fact that I have lost 95% of my hair on the top of my head in the last 5 years. Full head to nearly bald in 5 years. Who would have thunk it. At least I got married before the follicle challenges.
Just wait till the night your body decides that it doesn’t like alcohol anymore. Or, I should say, just wait until the morning after your body decides it doesn’t like alcohol anymore. That came for me in my late twenties. What a harsh, cold world we live in.
Ha! That’s nothing! Just wait until your back goes out for an entire week simply because you bent over forward while sitting in your office chair! Yup, only 41 years old and I officially have OWS (Old Woman Syndrome).
In my work I get some nice swag, which includes lots of movie soundtracks.
Many of these are simply compliations of recent hits. I got one a while back and I was scanning the back and I came to the sudden realization that didn’t know which column was the names of the songs and which column was the name of the bands.
You crazy kids! The music you listen to is just noise!
I’m 40 and can stand on my hands and head longer than anyone I know including two 15 year old girls who were staying at my house 2 weeks ago with family. I could also do a much better cartwheel than they could.
Now about 6 weeks ago I went tubing (behind a motor boat) and knee boarding and I was damn sore from doing that.
32 isn’t old nor is 40…it’s just all in your mind.
That’s nothing! I threw my back out once by resetting the trip odometer on my car! It was darn near a week before it felt better, too.
And that was when I was back in my 20s!
I am being reminded more and more of the final skit John Heffron did on “Last Comic Standing” when he talked about being a kid and healing like Wolverine, vs being old and straining your “Hair blow-drying muscle”
Honestly, though, I’m only 27 (28 in 2 months), and I already feel like I expected 38 to feel. I can’t even imagine how I’ll fell when I hit 40. I thought that those wierd back aches and muscle twinges wouldn’t happen until at least the 40s or 50s. How surprised I was when they started in my mid 20s. How quickly the mighty fall. Of course, it may be exacerbated by the fact that I have lost 95% of my hair on the top of my head in the last 5 years. Full head to nearly bald in 5 years. Who would have thunk it. At least I got married before the follicle challenges.