Ageing

I find a serious conspiracy around me, to make me older than I am.

Firstly, whenever I see myself in front of the mirror, I find the mirror is trying to show me older.  My skin looks drier and with lesser sheen. It hides the glowing shine from my skin and highlights wrinkles and darker tan almost everywhere. Most of the time, it shows to me what I might look when I really grow old. I really don’t understand who has started playing this trick, working around, the mirror against me.

Clothes have been stretched in some places and narrowed in some areas. Want to know who loosened it at my mighty broad chest and shortened it around my belly-n-bum. I am sure someone has really worked hard with all my clothes, a very serious attempt to show me in the future – and have succeeded to a large extent.

Children in the neighbourhood, by the pace at which they grow, definitely make me look older by a number of times. Not stopping there, they call me Uncle, when I still am like a Bro to them.  Should I smile with glee or try to hide my plight when own children grow up so fast, dwarfing me in front of fellow friends, especially the women around.

Songs that I used to listen are whiffed off, saying they are old. When I try to sing, I am pushed and made to loose some breath. Some of the favourite sports that were sported with great energy and zeal, now make me tired too soon and weary to take up new ones. Sometimes, the stairs in the regular places seem to have been increased by someone to pull me down. Also, they have put some weights on me to make me puff up and grasp for breath, much sooner than I usually do.

My dear friends are the ones who refer me as I am. They haven’t changed their ways with me, neither have I with them. They see me and treat me as what I am, forever young. While with them, I have never ever felt that pinch of looking older – or ageing – if you want to term it so.

Really keen to know who this saboteur is, what pleasure he or she is gaining out of this play.  No one seems to take me seriously, I am not that old. Believe me.