I'm going to be forty not next Thursday, but the following one. I feel ok! It's like the same thing with grayer hair...
An employee at a restaurant called Pickup Sticks we have around here that does Chinese fast food like Panda Express but a little less greasy told me I look 25! We were talking about some of the problems with going vegan, namely I mentioned the lack of B12 or necessity of supplementation. You can get it from nutritional yeast or vitamins, but not in plants. I think there might be some in almond milk, but I'm not sure... Anyway, he was tripping out when I told him I would be forty soon. I guess I look a little younger than my age. I try to fit in with the kids because they are the ones in school with me, so my mode of dress is a little bit but not a lot younger than my age.
I was working at a sporting goods store just before Christmas, and my boss (who I think was around 28-30), asked me how old I was. I had made some comments about not having done something (I forget what it was) for over 50 years...and he looked a bit taken aback. "How old *are* you...if you don't mind my asking?"...he asked. When I told him I was 58, he said he thought I was mid-to-late 40s. Umm...okay!
I'm 39, and haven't noticed any of old age's effects yet, except I keep on pissing and shitting myself. I don't feel old. I feel like a newborn. I haven't learned one goddamned thing from all of you in 39 years.
Ahh...I've felt that way too. Going down on a woman who has a couple days worth of "stubble" down there? Feels like you're licking a porcupine...or a belt sander.