Yet another year passes, a birthday crosses, age increases, dejavu and introspection sets in
Find below Dr. Rajesh’s ever-growing list of ‘chronic eulogy’ as applied to chronology
You are not young anymore if……..
……the young actress you once mooned over starts playing the leading man’s mother
……the neighbour’s stereo irritates you and not vice versa
……you walk around a puddle of water and not through it
……without your glasses you can’t read anything unless it’s at ‘arms length’
……you actually don’t mind waiting in traffic
……you hate the remix but love the original score
……every day you deal with diabetes, hypertension etc but you are NOT a doctor
……the paediatrician who vaccinated you has featured in the obituary
……a babe refers to any age
……you are happy when accused of ogling..or you just dont mind….
……insurance agents don’t disturb you…..
……you have to scroll a long way back whilst filling the year of birth on an online survey
……you don’t find the latest gizmo in the market useful…check….do you fancy the tiger text?
……you reach for the magnifying glass before you answer the phone
……there are 120 unread messages in your hand-phone you never knew was there
……on an average every week you open a new email account as the password and the retrieval answer was forgotten
……having a drink pisfully (pun intended) depends on availability of a restroom
……the diet is violated due to the prescribed 2kg of medication
……plucking samples of the available grey hair is now considered a “hair-cut”
……theatres are preferred to video, because only the big screen is visible
……busy means reading the newspaper
…..hard work refers to getting it straight-I mean the stream of urine-in prostate enlargement
…..clothes discarded as unfashionable years ago is the current rage
…..step-on-it refers to the brake and not the accelerator
…..you start compiling a list such as this…
Dr. P. K. Rajesh
Source: AIMST University Faculty of Medicine Newsletter Volume 2 (August 2010 – Febuary 2011)