One of the Cool Kids

Submitted by CoralLevang on August 18th, 2013 – Flag this news as inappropriate

Category: Cool

Tonight I am reminiscing a bit about life, having been contacted by someone I used to be in a band with in the Navy. I never realized that he was older than I am by eight months.

It is funny how time flies and we all end up becoming older, if the proverbial "Life's Bus" doesn't come around the corner and run us over first.

I remember telling another friend I was stationed with back in 1980 in Hawaii, “You are cool for 30.” I was not quite 25 years of age.

I wonder if the “kids” in my workshops, many of them getting ready to “retire” from the military, look at me in the same way. The youngest of the group of retirees are my daughter’s age.

“You’re cool for being nearly 60,” they might say.

I never was one of the “cool” kids before.

I suppose I am still holding out for hope.