by Melissa Brown

Created on: October 23, 2008

The time came before we knew it was upon us. It just sneaked right up our alley. The impact of the realization for each of us as individuals was just shocking and numbing at the same time. Where did the time go? Though I still feel as though I have a full lifetime ahead of me, I realize that I'm on the other side of the mountain, and the momentum is carrying me a little faster than I'd like to go. It's that old paradox of time flying by faster as we get older. More of this paradox is that at 60 years old, I don't feel any older inside. My insides aren't matching my outsides. I have arrived at the age where I look much better in clothes than out of them. This can't be all bad, since it has been said that it's good to be young at heart. Not only that, I feel as though I've only just begun. Don't bury me yet!

It's true, you know. We've already experienced most of life's newness and now we are at the time in our lives when we are remembering when, wondering where it went and what on earth has gotten into the youth of today? The youth of today that I speak of are the people that are replacing us. Just who are they? Well, they are not strangers. The people replacing us are our children. We wondered what got into to them, and the kids we are wondering about now are our children's childrenour grandchildren. What has gotten into them anyway?

I am seeing a new trend in the youth of today. They tend to take shorter days at work. Nearly all of them work out at one gym or another, and they don't just go out for dinner and party. You could hardly call it a date. This date usually starts out at 10:00 p.m. They usually meet up or hook up with their "date at a designated hot spot and it goes from there. Where, I just don't know. It would hardly do for one of us (Boomers) to show up at one of these hot spots just to see what goes on. First of all, they'd all just fade into the cracks and disappear from our observance. Secondly, it's waaaayyyyy past our bet time.

There was a time when we would get up, go to work and put in a full day, solve all the problems of the world; come home and mow the lawn, go to the gym, play Spades, hearts or Scat until 2 a.m. We could actually stay up past 9 p.m. watch an entire movie, finish a project or just read a book. We could party with the best of them until the wee hours and still show up for work the next day..on time. Now, it's lights out between 9 and 9:30 p.m., and that's on the week-ends.

We are still early risers after years of getting up

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