Hi Wise
Happy birthday - just got this now - but as they say, rather late than never. I note that you are 26, as I am 29 and a good few months. I would like to tell you that you are no where close to old age unless you suffer from A.A.A.D.D. (Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder). The symptomes are extraordinary and it manifests like this:
You decide to water the garden. As you turn on the hose in the driveway, you see that your car also needs a wash. On your way to the car, you see the mail you picked up from the box earlier and decide to go through the mail before you start to wash the car. You then put your car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can and than notice that the garbage can is full. So, then you decide to put the mail back on the table and to take out the garbage first. But then you think that since you are near the mailbox when you empty the bin, you may as well pay the bills first and seperate the junkmail from the bills. You take out your cheque book and notice that there is only one cheque left. The extra cheque book is in your study so you go inside the house to get the other cheque book. On your desk is a can of coke you started drinking so you decide to put that back in the fridge, in any event, you don't want to spil coke over the paperwork you're about to begin, so you take the coke and on the way to the fridge, you notice a vase of flowers that needs some water. You put the coke down on the kitchen counter and you then discover your reading glasses which you were looking for all morning. You decide to take the reading glasses back to your study before you lose them again, but before you to that, you decide to give the flowers water but then you suddenly spot the TV remote which someone left in the kitchen. Knowing that you will be searcing for the remote tonight, you decide to take the remote back to the lounge where it belongs, but then you become all confused and decide to do one thing at a time and water the flowers first. You put the remote down again and fill the vase with water. But now you spill water on the floor and get some paper towels to dry the floor. Now you get to the point where you start to wonder what you were actually doing.
Bottom line - the car did not get washed, the bills were not paid, there is a warm can of coke standing in the kitchen, the flowers don't have enough water and there is still only 1 cheque in the cheque book, the remote is missing and the reading glasses are no where to be found, and then worst of all, the car keys are gone!
Then one wonders why nothing got done all day as you sure as hell were busy all day.
"Gowing older is mandatory, Growing Up is optional and laughing at yourself is therapeutic!"
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