Last week I put my back out whilst doing some gardening.
I’m not sure I’ve ever written a sentence that makes me feel older. I just added this to my ever expanding list of minor ailments that I have been picking up over the last few years.
I used to work in the call centre at Saga (a company aimed at the over 50s) selling holidays with insurance included. When a customer wanted to take out this insurance I had to ask them about any medical conditions they might have that could affect the insurance. The things they listed all seemed like stuff that only old people would get. Now I seem to be collecting them all like a sort of small medical issues game of Pokemon.
Yet still I think that my body can do all of the things it could do 20 years ago and I still feel in my mind like I’m in my early 20s. Ageing is weird.
Mentally however, I’m much more grown up than when I was in my 20s. In my 20s I was a massive idiot. Now I’m only a small idiot. I’m a lot more sensible, I’m a lot more reasonable and much less argumentative. And I think this is an improvement.