Sunday, August 31, 2008

What Being 37 Means

I think being 37 means being tired.

It also means giving away your cutest bikinis to your teenaged daughters because they are too "young" for you now.

I think being 37 means being more calm. But it also means staying out later on weeknights in the summer, because you know that summer is fleeting in Michigan.

Being 37, to me, means being unwilling to do things just because others want me to. But it also means that sometimes just because someone else needs or wants me to do things, I may want to.

Being 37 means noticing dark circles under my eyes and a few gray hairs now and again.

It also means not being obsessed with things like that. I'm going to grow old. Sooner rather than later. Time to accept. Thank goodness it is a slow process.

Being 37, in a nutshell, consists of doing a lot of noticing.

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