Rebuilding Rob

NOTE: this post was started on my birthday last week. I’m posting it today for posterity purposes.

OK, so maybe the start of the second half century for me was technically my 50th birthday, but this just seemed like a clever title at the time

I turned 51 years old last week.

Man, how the hell did I get here? If you had told me, when I was a little kid, that I would be where I am today when I turned 51, I would call you a liar.

That’s not to say that my life is bad I mean, yes, there are things in my life that I wish were going differently. And I’m not here to complain about that. In fact, I’m relatively content with where my life is right now. Sure there are things I’m working on, but there are also a lot of things that I’ve managed to put to rest in the last few years.

Somehow today, my age came up and casual conversation, and once again, several of my students said “you don’t look 51” to which I am always pleasantly surprised to hear. A few students even said that their grandparents are 51. Now THAT made me feel old!

But I am at that age where all of my high school students are younger than Kid 1 now. Of course that’s inevitable as he gets older and just like Wooderson says in Dazed and Confused “they stay the same age“

I’m coming to terms with the fact that my body is slowing down. I still work out, but I realize that I’m going to have to work harder to get fewer results than I would have even 5 years ago.

I feel like I’m starting to get more frequent brain-farts than I have previously. I’m not suggesting that I’m starting to get senile or anything; but I want to make more of a point to do things that will keep my brain sharp – reading, writing, some of those random brain games. But I must admit that seeing Mother having more memory issues weighs heavily in my mind.

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