Old Age, Aches & Me ...

I'm not as young as I used to be (duh!) I'm 40 years old (or 40 years young, depends on how you look at it) and there are days when my body feels like it belongs to a 70 year old man! It aches and creaks in places I never even knew existed. I guess old age (I'm only 40, how can I be considered old!!) catches up with everyone eventually.

It was only yesterday that I was 30 and felt so energetic in everything that I do. I'm still energetic mind you, but my body sometimes refuses to go along with my mind and soul! Half the time it rebels against what I wanna do. And the worst thing is I can't really do anything about it. If that uncooperative body feels like aching and giving me hell, it'll do just that!

There was a time, not too long ago at that, that I could stay up real late, like 3-4am and then wake up fresh the next day and go to work and do the same thing all over again. Now, I feel woozy around 10 pm, can you believe that? I still remember the days when my buddy and me used to hang out till the wee hours of the morning (sometimes with another friend) and then head home, get a couple of hours of sleep and go to work the next day. And we did this almost nite. And we felt no after effects at all.

Now, after I head home from work, do my regular evening run (which sometimes I find stupid excuses to skip), have dinner and the wife and me would adjourned to the family hall to catch a couple of our favourite shows after the kids head to bed, which normally runs until midnight, but most nites I'll be dozing off halfway through the shows ... siggghhh ....

I'm still a kid at heart, my wife always says that I clown around too much. I'm not a very serious person and I act and think like I'm still a kid at times (yeah, Adrian, don't laugh, we both act the same ... LOL!) I mean I do know when to be serious (like never ... hehehe). I do stuff that I used to do in my twenties or even thirties but then my body rebels against what I do and shows its displeasure with me abusing my body by aching and creaking like it was gonna fall apart right that minute.

There are days when I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and the moment I put my feet on my bedroom floor and walk to the toilet, you can hear my joints cracking like it was the fourth of July of something! Every joint that could possibly crack would crack and half the time I fear my neighbors would wake up from all the racket I cause ... LOL!

I'm a person who really can't sit still for very long at home (well, unless I was blogging that is ... LOL!). I get bored sitting around being unproductive for too long. So I'm always finding some stuff to do, be it messing with my car, cleaning the house, etc, etc, etc. The thing is, nowadays after doing these things, I get pretty drained out much faster than before. And the aches last much longer than before also.

But sometimes it's weird, I can run miles but just following the wife grocery shopping drains me out. My legs would ache, my body would get tired and I'd be bugging her to hurry up so we could go home. And I'm not doing anything really strenuous except pushing the trolley!

Time really flies when you're having fun they say. It was only yesterday that I was so full of energy and suddenly one day it dawns upon you that you're no longer young, no matter how much you try to still do the things we used to do when we're younger it justs get harder to do them the same way. I guess this happens to almost everyone (there are exceptional few I guess).

With that said and done, it doesn't mean I'm gonna let that thing they call 'old age' get the better of me. I'm gonna give it a run for its money! No matter how much aches it throws my way after a strenuous running session, I'm gonna go out there and run some more. I still feel young at heart and I still act young at heart, aches and all. I always tell my wife I'm gonna live to be at least a hundred!

I may complain about this (I'm the perennial complainer by the way) but I'm not gonna sit on my butt and not do a thing about this. Like I said, I'm gonna fight this and before long I'm gonna be as close to being much more fitter and active like I was a couple of years back. You mark my words :) No more dozing off on the couch while watching TV (urmm, that one I can't guarantee cos I do so love to sleep ... LOL!).