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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[zola.livejournal.com]

This happens to me all the time, especially as a programmer who is working with a bunch of twenty-somethings--I am definitely "one of the boys" but we all get startled on occasion when it comes up that I have children their age. (I'm about to turn 46)

I find I wonder where the time went, really, it didn't seem that long ago that my kids were tiny babies, and now they are all approaching the point of having families of their own. I have a sense of shock that undoubtedly at some point a few more years down the road there will be grandbabies...

I think that's the thing that I just love about the Internet--you can't have preconceived notions about what a person can and can't do based on their looks because you can't see them. When those friendships make the transition to real life, the relationship is established and the age just doesn't really mean much.

And it definitely contributes to my forgetting to act my age. :D