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\"\"<\/a>The End Of Youth surprised me one morning. It didn’t sneak up on me gradually, the way friends have related their own revelatory experiences with\u00a0mirrors. For me, it came all of a sudden and I was hugely, comically surprised at the face in the mirror. It was as if the wrong person had jumped out of a cake in a sitcom. What? Who is that?<\/p>\n

I’d ignored previous clues. Now they all piled on together. The checkout counter. Any given cash register where senior discounts were\u00a0figured.<\/p>\n

In the past, I’d ask for the discount and the\u00a0person in charge made a fuss of saying, “No, you can’t<\/em><\/strong> be.” Some were sincere, others not, but I was fine with their reaction and fine with pulling out I.D. to prove I deserved the discount.<\/p>\n

You can guess what’s coming. One day,\u00a0everything changed. As I presented my merchandise, the cashier asked \u201cAnd are you a member of our Senior Club?” That was the first time nobody said, “You can’t be,” and from that day forward, it happened more frequently.<\/p>\n

It’s not a specific age. It happens to some of us \u00a0decades too soon, because an observer isn’t really observant or doesn’t know what aging looks like, or isn’t paying attention. It also happens the other way around\u00a0for some of us, years later than we really deserve, and we are offered a grace period, while we pretend not to notice the changes in the mirror.<\/p>\n

But it will arrive. It will come in some way at some time to you, personally, and that will be the beginning of many other things, some of them very good. It can be the beginning of figuring out the next stage, of deciding our own worth based not just on a set of physical markers.<\/p>\n

This isn’t to say that I have the answers yet, but only to remind you, as a friend, that day is coming, the day you fully accept you are no longer young and that it’s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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