Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for September 03, 2024

Not me! I earned these aches and pains!

You must mean 20 stone weight?

I wish.

My, how accurate an assessment of how I feel.

Mid 20s extra!

I’d bet this Lioness was really Roaring in her Twenties!

Yeah I wish!

Your mind also says you are a rational person Aunty. I hate to tell you but your mind is a big fat liar.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste!!!

Yeah, no!!!!! I’d rather be in my 50s. . .you (should) know a little bit about who you are, and free from tying yourself in knots trying to “be” whatever is the “social norm” at the time. . .

Earning them is one thing, living with them is another :D

My body says the same thing!

You can’t wait until you’re middle aged to start doing things you used to do when you were younger Auntie A! When I was in my 20s, I made a vow to keep my body up. I’m 65 and in better shape than most guys a half or even a third of my age! ;)

I’m the same way. My mind feels like I’m in my 30’s. But then my back aches, my knees hurt, and my hips ache…

Actually, at 78, I feel stronger and healthier than I did in my 20s… I was very malnourished… out of stupidity… I just didn’t know an better… and ate all sorts of junk foods, and not enough real, nourishing foods, and I even take some supplements which I didn’t do then!

Been sayin’this for sometime now!

There is no wish about it- – it is reality.

I wish my body would be as forgetful as my mind is.

When I was 20 I was indestructible, I still am but my body is laughing.

I’m working on my fifth twenty.

My mind goes there too.

Ain’t that the truth!

I know the feeling. I get up in the morning, my mind telling me I can crawl under the porch and fix that broken floor joist. Then after I remove the entry cover and start crawling in through the small opening my body yells “just how stupid are you”. The answer is, stupid enough to keep going. Once inspected I crawl back out head to my workshop, pick up the phone and ask my son-in-law to stop by for coffee. Maybe his body doesn’t yell as loud.

my mind says thank the great spirit that i’m not in my 20s anymore… ☺

well it is 2024, so technically…