Drabble by Kevin Fagan for November 16, 2018

Don’t scare as easy as you did, Ralph….but can sympathize because of the thinness on top of the head and the salt and pepper in the beard that I see every day…

I agree Ralph, the thing is it happened so fast!

I’m older than him and I don’t feel I am old!

He should sing “Yesterday When I Was Young,” or better still, the opening line of “Dream On.”

Mirrors can reveal a lot about ourselves that we would rather not have revealed. This is one of the advantages to being a vampire.

young people are invincible and will never grow old…….they will be young forever, as they hold old folks in pity and disdain.

they just don’t know how soon that changes

That’s probably why our eyesight starts failing after 40.

“I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now”

It’s interesting how I wake up young and ready to go. Then I look in the mirror and this OLD guy is looking back at me. Don’t even recognize him, but he sure makes me feel old.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see my mother. Good thing I love my mother. :o)

I lived in a Florida gated community and I feel like I’m living with a bunch of old folks. We might be chronologically the same age, but I look at them and think, “That’s not ME”. LOL

Sorry, Ralph. I’m with Maurice Chevalier on this one:"Oh, youth can really do a fellow in!

“The Fountain of Youth is dull as paint,Methusala is my patron saintOh, I’m so glad that I’m not young any more.

The rivals that don’t exist at all,The feeling you’re only too feet tall—I’m so glad that I’m not young any more. . ."

“After youth, old age

After old age, death

Therefore let us rejoice that we are young." quoted in Brahms “Academic Festival”