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Today marks the day of my assent into middle agedness. It’s finally time for me to grow up and accept responsibility due my age, and become more of a human before the slow descent into advanced age.

How am I dealing with it so far? Pretty well. I mean, I am only a few hours into my 30th year. I understand that these changes are inevitable. Some changed will be made willingly, others there will be tears, some will come over my dead body, and others I hope will find an adoptive place in my life that will represent a nostalgic idea of a time long spent.

Most of you understand that I love making lists. Lists are fantastic. They help me prioritize, categorize and over all make sense of way too many thoughts in my head. I’ve decided to make a few list to help explain my personal ascent into middle agedness.

Categories:
•You can’t take it with you (stuff I have to give up)

- Sugar Cereal

- Staying up all hours of the night, and then waking up early

- Sodas

- Any juvenile activities I currently or my participate in the future

•….But maybe I can (stuff I am reluctantly giving up)

- Eating pizza after 8:00pm/ eating pizza for breakfast

- Being Lazy; There just isn’t enough time left

- My dreams of becoming a Rock God of any kind

- My massive collection of Rock t-shirts

- My dreams of becoming an All-Star baseball player

•Over my dead body (stuff I am really not looking forward to)

- The “Complete” Physical

- Bran

- Early Bird Special

- Being the Sunday Driver in the fast lane

- Receding Hairline, Monk Patch, Gray Hair

- Failing to understand technologies

•Nope, I’m keeping that (stuff they’ll have to pry outta my cold dead hands)

- My video games

- My guitars

- Pez

- Playing my music really loud in my car while driving alone

•That’s just right (Stuff I absolutely look forward to)

- Insurance rates drop

- Being considered “mature”

- Finally being able to use the phrase “back in the day” without getting scrutinized for being too young.

- Being thought of as cool by a younger generation

-Growing old with the ones I love most

Ok, So turns out that after categorizing and prioritizing, growing old is gonna be awesome. Good thing I have 10 years to brace for the start of the end.

Ciao A Tutti,

The Robot