Still in my Twenties

A few years ago I ran the Bay to Breakers run (without enough training), and after the race I found myself sitting in someone else's apartment with ice on each of my knees. My comment at the time: "I'm not 24 anymore." (I think I was 26.)

Friday night I went to pizza and after ordering I scanned the place looking for a seat. In the adjacent room it appeared all the tables were full, and I noticed a few young girls occuypying some of them. Then my date commented that it looked like a sorority meeting was taking up that whole room. So I looked again. She was right. These were college girls. Here I am looking at a room full of young, attractive, college girls, and I didn't even notice. At first glance I thought they were high school students, and even after looking again they still looked just looked like kids. I must be getting older, and I'm still in my twenties. (I'm going to assume most of them were freshmen.)

I always hate it if an opponent can get a step on me. Even worse is the thought that that oppenent may not have been able to just five years ago. All of these thoughts, and I'm still in my twenties.

Last fall I played Ultimate every Wednesday, and sometimes I would play Thursday night as well. During the Thursday games I was noticing soreness in different parts of my body. I had to ask myself if I was getting too old to play back to back nights. Do I need more recovery time now? All of these thoughts, and I'm still in my twenties. (Also, I was flirting with a cute 22-year-old girl on my Wednesday team. I told her that we had a lot in common. We were both in our twenties, and...)

Last night the girl sitting next to me at dinner asked me if there were things I needed to check off my list before I entered the next decade. I didn't have anything. I don't feel like I need to jump out of a plane, shoot a deer, learn a third language, watch the first season of 24 on DVD, or learn to juggle by the time I am thirty. I guess I'm feeling copacetic about it. I'm looking forward to being in my thirties. Its about time I got some respect over here. Its a good thing too, because I don't have time learn a language by my birthday next month. For right now I do know this: I'm still in my twenties.