Closer to Sixty Than Fifty

This has been on my mind quite a bit, about how close to 60 I am approaching, and then a short 10 years later I will be 70!! I suppose for one thing I just don't think of myself as 58 because in my head I am not, I still think I am much younger; how much younger I don't know, but not 58 for sure.  I don't know how 58 year olds are supposed to feel, and maybe we all feel the same way about this.  I am betting the majority of us are thinking exactly this:

Because I know I wonder.  How one day you're graduating from high school and the next you're 58, married over 20 years, have bills, are a grandparent, in somewhat of a dead end job, and taking care of an ill parent.  No one tells you this is going to happen either, though I guess if they did you would just think, "Nah...that isn't going to happen to me. I'm going to live  a great life and I'm going to be young forever."  Yeah, uh huh.  Oh I know some people are lucky enough to, (well except for staying young, no one gets to do that, even with all the facelifts and liposuctions and exercise) and good for them.  But for most of us, I am guessing life is on the ho-hum side and you're wishing to be young again, like you still are in your mind. 

The important thing to do though is to stay young in your mind because I think it helps.  I would rather be young-minded than an old fuddy-duddy (I admit, I probably do have my fuddy-duddy moments though).  There is no getting out of being 60, so I just try and keep my sense of humor and pretending I'm 30 instead of 60, and hope for the best.

Still, I have to wonder, what the hell happened???