I AM being a grown up …

[blamebrampton]

I'm trying to read and comment more on LJ in a bid to support everyone's mission to keep the LJ-based fandom going. I just had a quick skim through a commentary on part of Deathly Hallows and despite the writer raising loads of interesting and a few excellent points, I am now obsessed with one line, and I paraphrase: 'Rowling minimises our experience of the torture of this old man.'

The writer was talking about Xenophilius Lovegood. HE IS MY AGE OR A LITTLE OLDER OR POSSIBLY EVEN YOUNGER!!

I am so filled with righteous indignation! I ride hundreds of kilometres a month! I could do that a week if I didn't have to go to work! I have all my own teeth! In a fight with Snatchers I would probably go down because they are Wizards, but I would go down biting and they would seriously regret their life choices!

Bloody young people today! Where's someone Gen Y or younger so I can patronise them? I bet you can't do long division without electronic assistance! There! That'll show you! Bah!

Excuse me, I require a cup of tea and a good lie down.

*Exits, muttering.*

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[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird? I've actually been making notes to write a blog post on this. I'm weeks off being 38 and while I am really fine with that, and don't mind turning 40 (or even 50!) at all, I also read something the other day for a skin condition I seem to have and it says that it develops in 'middle age', and I thought, 'bugger. I guess that's me, then.' And then I wondered, why do I hate the idea of being 'middle aged'? It has such negative connotations, doesn't it? What is it we dislike about it, so much?