Aging

[pirate@43]

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get
old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're
so excited about aging that you think in fractions. How old are
you?.... "I'm four and a half" .... You're never 36 and a
half .... you're four and a half going on five!

That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you
back. You jump to the next number. How old are you? "I'm gonna
be 16." You could be 12, but you're gonna be 16.

And then the greatest day of your life happens .... you become
21. Even the words sound like a ceremony .... you
BECOME 21 ... YES!!!

But then you turn 30 .... ooohhh what happened there? Makes you
sound like bad milk .... He TURNED, we had to throw him out.
There's no fun now.

What's wrong?? What changed?? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30,
then you're PUSHING 40 ..... stay over there, it's all slipping
away ........

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40, you
REACH 50 ..... and your dreams are gone.

Then you MAKE IT to 60 ..... you didn't think you'd make it!!!!

So you BECOME 21, you TURN 30, you're PUSHING 40,
you REACH 50,
you MAKE IT to 60 ...... then you build up so much speed you
HIT 70!

After that, it's a day by day thing. After that, you HIT
Wednesday ....

You get into your 80's, you HIT lunch. My grandmother won't even
buy green bananas .... it's an investment you know, and maybe a
bad one.

And it doesn't end there .... into the 90's you start going
backwards .... I was JUST 92 ...

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become
a little kid again .... "I'm 100 and a half!!!!"

[sailingagain]