Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS writer.
Things I find myself thinking about #1: age.
It’s one if those things that you can never escape, but no matter how hard you try you can never get right.
When you’re young you spend all your time trying to fake older; when you’re older you spend all your time trying to fake young.
And there’s always something in the age basket to keep you worrying. Lankiness. Pimples. Grey hair. Wrinkles.
Sometimes, if you’re really blessed, all of the above.
But even if you reach Nirvana, even if you somehow manage to crack that coconut and skull the luscious, miracle-inducing nectar within, where does that you?
Out of your depth, that’s what.
The 15 year old who convinces the barman she’s really 18. The 39 year old who manages to botox her way to 29. Both reeling from a world they weren’t ready for (and only one of them able to frown about it), because there’s a world of difference between 15 and 18, and today’s 29 is just a different world.
So what do we do?
Enjoy it.
Be who you are.
Whatever number that might be.