Oldness

What point is it that you are old? When do you even start the getting old process? Is it determined by the number of years you have completed? Is it when you can't swing across the monkey bars - let alone hang from them? Maybe it's when you see your skin's smoothness and toughness give in to wrinkles. True, that it could all just be in your head... but that just doesn't seem fair.

Most kids are fearless. At recess it was a dead sprint to get to the monkey bars that were 3 times your height. Then you would race each other across, skipping every other one, sometimes 2! Then you would somehow climb on top, sit there comfortably and gaze over the rest of the playground. How long has it been since you jump-ropped? Or hulu-hooped?

For a lot of people, the older you get, the more you use you brain and not your body. I am consistently around athletes. Some are going to school... I would say that most don't go to school or work. All they do is engage their bodies in activity all day long.

I know a guy who is 61. He was active when he was younger till he hit 20. Then not so much. A little over ten years ago he started speedsakting... in his 50s. He does a 3000 rep ab workout almost everyday. His skating has become faster and faster. He once told me that he is going to be here, doing this for the rest of his life. He travels around to various race competitions and has a great attitude. He's not old.

Then there is me. I turned 25 this past August and feel like I'm going down hill. I haven't really skated since July. I think I hit a plateau in my training at that time and didn't see it spiking up again. So in the past months, I haven't been really doing anything active.

If you want to be able to move later, you have to move now.

Tonight I am going to skate some short track and see where that gets me.

PS: I like instant results, but am prepared to not get what I want in full this evening. which makes me think of one other point:

Yeah, have goals... but you will spend almost 100% of the time reaching those goals, so like what you are doing. Find some frame of mind to do it for yourself.