I was born on 1st March 1953, the year of the water snake in the Chinese Horoscope. 2013 is also a water snake year, which means that I must be 60. This seems strange to me as I feel about 35. Where do the years go?
Surely it was only a few years ago that I was leaving school and heading off into my adult life. I recall taking a baby home from the hospital and now he is nearly 40. It is going too fast and I want it to slow down.
I really don’t mind being 60. I have an interesting life full of fun. I have a wonderful family and great friends. I am healthy and get to travel the world. If it wasn’t for the occasional shock when I look in the mirror I would really believe I was 35.
On that note I will leave you with a poem by Michael Leunig called…The Mirror.
Each year my mirror seems much older
Somewhat duller and a fraction colder
The glass which always gleamed and twinkled
Now appears all scratched and wrinkled
Appears more blotchy, tired and droopy
Confused and haggard, dazed and loopy
Sadder, slower, grimmer, glummer
I think that I’ve been sold a bummer