As I get older my body slowly degenerates, my vision gets a little worse with every passing year, and I get a little more frail as well, new wrinkles form and my hair (What little I have) starts to turn grey on all parts of my body, and it starts to grow in places that it never grew before, but my mind still thinks it's a twenty-year old young man that can do all the things it used to do.
I find it odd that even though I know I am getting older, my mind still works like it did in my youth. It does change with me, some things I used to find funny are not funny anymore and my tolerance level for drama has gone way down, but for some reason my mind thinks I can still do a catwalk on a bicycle or do a back flip on a trampoline, when in reality I shouldn't be doing anything that could really hurt myself.
I still look at women that are way too young for me, and I still love watching cartoons for some reasons. Video games are still a huge part of my life and when I go out shopping in a mall I can't help but look at the new toys they make for children, remembering my He-Man action figure collection and metal transformer toys, then I think about how everything is made so cheaply.
I like wearing super hero t-shirts, and reading comic books. I am young at heart and mind but aging slowly. It makes me wonder if senior citizens have this same mental state and I'm beginning to think that most of them do.
We are all human and I'm sure we all experience a youthful state of mind but I also think that a lot of us suppress these types of thoughts because of your responsibilities of becoming a mature adult and you bury that childlike wonder that lives in all of us. I have met quite a few incredibly serious people that do not joke or have fun, I say life is too short to make everything business and no pleasure.
There has to be a middle ground of course and you can't be too serious or childish. If you find that balance between the two I believe that your life will be much more fulfilling.
Scott Goerz
