Feeling My Age

This funny thing happens to me when I think about my age.  I feel about 23.  It doesn't seem like much time has passed since high school.  My memories of my childhood and college years are still so sharp.  I can remember my kid's infancies so clearly and I can tell you the names of every student I've ever taught.  Because of this, somehow my brain doesn't recognize that I'm getting older.  Until....

1. I realize that almost all professional athletes are younger than me.  WHAT?! And not only are they younger, but some of them were born over a decade after me.  

2. I find myself saying "kids didn't act that way when I was first teaching...." Then I do the math and realize my first year of teaching was 12 years ago.  *Eye roll*

3. I bend over.  Dude.  And then try and stand up? And the noises I have to stop myself from making after these two seemingly simple actions....Lord have mercy.

4. My son talks to me.  We have conversations that are so adult now.  About love and growing up, how his feelings change as he gets older, things he struggles with and why he makes the decisions he does.  I remember when I used to long for the days he could say the word "please" or finally admit to me that he was to tired and stop fighting his sleep.  Now he talks to me about everything in his heart and truly trusts me.  Something I wouldn't trade for the world.

5. I do the math that I'm only 3 years from my 20 year high school reunion.

Please tell me somebody else feels ageless in an aging society?!