When I joined The Well back in the mid 90s there was a thread (and it is still live today) called “Aging Meat Suits” or something like that. Given that a lot of the members and admin were more boomer (well, first gen Deadheads) than Gen X I didn’t even think about it much. Now I think about it.
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At 46 I thought I’d dodged that bullet, too. Eight years later I’m realizing I was wrong.
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When I was a kid, there were people alive whose parents had been slaves.
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There almost certainly still are.
If a man was born into slavery shortly before the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 and fathered a child in his mid-60s then that child would be in their early 90s today.
History isn’t as far away as we tend to think.
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Or Faulkner. Or somebody else. Who knows?
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I have a driver’s license from when I was about 20 that reminds me of young Homer, at least compared to now.
. . . now I need the Count to tally the hairs in the sink when I comb in the morning.
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Then: Bill Gates (no, really. I was mistaken for him a few times. Also sent a picture of him to my father saying it was me. He wanted to know when I got the new sweater)
Now: Heisenberg from Breaking Bad.
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It hit me a while ago that when The Simpsons shorts first aired on the Tracy Ullman show I was the same age as Bart, but now I’m around a decade older than Homer.
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When it first aired on Fox I was the same age as Bart. It’s weird to age along with the show and slowly pass the age of the entire family (and even Moleman!!)
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There are millennials over 40 now. Gen X hasn’t been young in a long time.
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I never expected Grandpa Simpson to be the one I related to the most by the time the show went off the air.
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Yes, but now we’re realizing it :-).
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The things that once were so very important are history or on the cusp of being forgotten. The heroes of our youth are dying and the idealistic hope I had for the future born of the falling wall in 1989 finally got nailed by the one-two punch of Putin and Trump. Climate catastrophe is the new normal. The internet once thought to be the democratizer of knowledge has proven that disinformation has a stronger pull than truth.
Physically, I’m still fine, but I’m losing friends and family my age about once a year and every time I look in the mirror my father stares back.
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And you get so mad when your ma and dad
Reflect when you look in the mirror
…
Waxing or waning?
Your call.
(I hope you’re well)
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I was really lucky in that regard as well, I thank my grandfather on my mom’s side, who kept his hair until the day he died. It was always a worry though because my dad is balding, and I thought I might go that way eventually, but I solved that problem permanently when at 43 I kicked out testosterone and started running on estrogen. 
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We’re off work, and we went out for a few drinks and now I have a hangover before I have even gone to sleep, dammit.
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I eagerly await the epithet that replaces “boomer” directed at the genX crowd.
Any day now…
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Well, that would require someone to pay any attention to us… so it’s not gonna happen…
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