ON THE DOORSTEPS OF OLD AGE

ON THE DOORSTEPS OF OLD AGE

• you wake up at 2 am and can’t go back to sleep anymore so you watch concerts of Michael Buble to tire your eyes to no avail

• you like listening to the songs of your time so your son gives you a headset so you can enjoy , without necessarily filling the house with your own brand of music

• you keep telling the same stories to the same people who give the same reactions everytime, making you look like fools to an outside observer

• you meet a friend whom you haven’t seen for many years and you notice how his face has shrunk and you suddenly realize he’s probably thinking of the same thing about you

• you talk to your husband even when his back is turned , so he can not hear you and you end up murmuring to yourself

• you realize how situations have turned around, whereas before, your children were bent on making your life miserable by insisting they go with you to the office, now , you find yourself begging them to please come home for christmas so you can watch them quarrel again over which channel to watch

• when your favorite song is played, you suddenly grab your husband, (who was just innocently passing by on his way to the kitchen with a lemon in one hand and a cucumber in the other to make the usual lemon water); to dance with you , who is just as glad to give in to your silly request

• when you can’t even finish a scientific lecture in its entirety because you are already sleepy at 8pm!