Getting Old is Weird

(Photo copyright Elsner '24)

50. No way. There's no way I could be 50.

I'm not, yet, but soon. Those around me getting younger & younger. Where are my other 50ers? Gen X badasses? They're missing. MIA. Not in the workforce. Everyone is older or, the majority in my work space, 20 years or more younger. 

Are that many of us dead?

Damn.

At this point, it's true. I know more dead people than alive people. My age. Weird.

50. Older than so many, & yet still, so young.