On Acting One's Age

[rolanni]

I have an awfully hard time remembering to act my age.

For example, I forget that my grey hairs entitle to me a chair, even when everyone else is sitting on the floor. I don't mind sitting on the floor -- in fact, I like to sit on the floor -- but it's always a jolt to see the Shocked and Horrified faces of the people around who suddenly want to scramble to find me "something to sit on" (What? I'm sitting on the floor. When did the floor stop being "something"?)

Is anyone else a chronological amnesiac?

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

In my heart, I am still the 35-year-old (that's when I got my backbone); I was shocked yesterday to realize that I was almost 50. The knees do a good job of reminding me, alas. My work just got an influx of new grads, and they look like children to me. Of course they do -- they're only four years older than my eldest.