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Five signs that you are growing old!!

I vividly remember a conversation I had with one of my long time friends when I was 27 years old.

Me -“Imagine J, it seems like we were in school in just a few years back, and now we are 27”

J – “True. Somehow 27 does not seem so old, but 30….man that will really mean death!!”

Well, much water has flown since that conversation….30 has come and gone and it has not yet been a disaster. Yet, the other day when I spent sometime in café Coffee Day with some colleagues from a former employer, I could not but feel old looking at the milieu around me.

So here’s a truly depressing game you may want to play…..list 5 things that you have noticed of late that tells you that you are growing old….do not mention your age, it is for the reader to guess, within a range of 5 years (eg: 15-20, 21-25, 26-30 years etc).

No matter which age range you are in, the truth is, you are growing older….can you guess my age from the list below:-

My top five:

1. You go to café Coffee Day and feel out of place

2. You no longer like loud music and would rather go to a bar than a pub

3. New entrants to the Indian cricket team are way older than you, benefit matches are being held for the cricketers you used to idolise earlier.

4. You cannot name any of the Grammy winners in the last five years but remember the lyrics of a couple of hits from your school days.

5. You read the business page in the newspapers before you read the sports page.


Incidentally, I do not know how to tag, if I did , I would have done it with this post (maybe I should add it to my list)!!
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  1. Winnie the poohiDecember 14, 2008 at 5:56 PM

    37 :P

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  2. New guyDecember 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM

    @Winnie: close, alarmingly close

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  3. --xh--December 15, 2008 at 3:45 PM

    you are, say - 36 years now?

    HM.. nah, i havnt started showing any of those 5 signs :)

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  4. New guyDecember 15, 2008 at 7:35 PM

    @xh: will be...i a few more months...bang on...what would be your five things

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  5. Pritam DewanDecember 16, 2008 at 3:41 PM

    Gavaskar made 34 centuries before he retired. And I am batting at 34.These days I do feel I am senile.
    My yardstick how much I am growing old will be

    1)I cannot multiply numbers as fast as i did in past..

    2)Sun rays get reflected back to space as they fall on my head.They say black color absorbs sunrays but the ratio to black to gray hair on my head is 2:1 !!
    Not bald yet......but slowly approaching that feat too!

    3)Curiosity for porn has diminished ...... Interest in world affiars have increased spl world politics,economy and less for sports...Nowdays I hardly watch cricket or soccer!!!!

    4)Have started Investment in retirement policies !!!!!!!!

    5)Younger girls do charm..... :)

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  6. AnonymousDecember 18, 2008 at 5:48 AM

    site ta besh ketadurosto baniyechhish...tor chhobitao jhingchak!
    how dare you write such a post after having been a member of a thek which has key members like dadu, chiku et al..this piece should/could have been written by any one of the thekers twenty years back (in our teens )... the thought of these two crossed the mind probably because their characteristics atleast in thek being so different from their nicknames :-)

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  7. New guyDecember 18, 2008 at 8:56 AM

    @babun: thik bolechhish!! ...However Dadu leaves upto his name actually...you only have to add 'a pervert' before his name and it will fit him to a T.
    and in the true tradition of the thek...frust-er golpo shob shomoy more appealing

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