old mold shmold
a good percentage of my livejournal friends are saying that they're getting old. the thirties starts this but don't tell a 60 or 70 year old as they'll laugh in your face. all this at a time when i am feeling that way myself and reading a book called "what i talk about when i talk about running" by murakami. dude runs 1 to 4 marathons a year and an 11 plus hour 62 mile race once when he was in his late forties or early fifties i'm not sure. i like that when i read his book, he had the same thought as me: this is my first time getting old so i'm not sure about it my guess is once you exit your twenties, you feel old. my theory is that no matter how old you feel, only at 50 do you really understand aging.well, not understand, but more understanding. makes sense since you're well over the halfway point most likely. and maybe just a smidge (or halfway) over the point where one feels conscious about age and aging. let's say post puberty is the beginning of that consciousness.
life is like a kafka novel. you start at point A. and decline from there. supposedly our vision starts to go at the time we're born. even if this is a myth, i think there's some truth to it. in any case, it's not all spikes and pointy things. joseph campbell and haruki murakami have taught me there's a way to enjoy aging. at least with certain words they've written. but one thing one has to do is accept it. running may not be as fast or as long, but hey, you're running. or whatever it is that you're doing while running. like living, writing, noticing the scenery, breathing, feeling endorphins.
life is like a kafka novel. you start at point A. and decline from there. supposedly our vision starts to go at the time we're born. even if this is a myth, i think there's some truth to it. in any case, it's not all spikes and pointy things. joseph campbell and haruki murakami have taught me there's a way to enjoy aging. at least with certain words they've written. but one thing one has to do is accept it. running may not be as fast or as long, but hey, you're running. or whatever it is that you're doing while running. like living, writing, noticing the scenery, breathing, feeling endorphins.