{"id":5659,"date":"2023-05-12T04:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:52:20","slug":"things-that-arent-what-they-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sometimesraw.com\/?p=5659","title":{"rendered":".Things that aren’t What they Used to Be."},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you wake up feeling great and everyone tells you how tired you look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you go to see the dermatologist to check a mole and he asks where you want Botox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a thirty-year-old guy arrives at a party and doesn’t even glance at you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you can guess from his personality what kind of a lover he is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Canadian Prime minister is younger than you or pretty much every intern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you have more hangovers than actual parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you no longer know who all the hip actors or singers are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When someone says you have a sexy gaze, but you are actually just squinting because you don’t want to get your glasses out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you tell someone you have known them since they were in diapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you share an anecdote from ten years ago and realise it is actually been twenty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you would rather go to bed early to make the most of the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are just excited to go home. And to bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your colleague was born the same year you graduated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people no longer ask if you plan on having another baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a younger woman says she hopes to look like you someday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you go to the ob-gyn for mammograms rather than birth control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you feel an ache somewhere and fear it might be the beginning of the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When selecting your year of birth on a website means scrolling down forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the face ID on your phone doesn’t recognize you in the morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are told that you are “damn hot for your age”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you smile at the na\u00efvit\u00e9 of a young woman’s remark, whereas before you would have just found her stupid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you think that’s a pillow mark on your cheek, but it is still there a week later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget that it is a bad idea to plan on working while on holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget what your alcohol tolerance is. You are still convinced that you can handle yourself five glasses in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget that new love stories come with baggage: workaholism, travel, and sometimes even an ex-wife and kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget that you have to pick your battles. You cannot get hung up on everything that bugs you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget that happiness is discipline. It comes from you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things that don’t count as a workout. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget that working out is vital for your mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you forget all those times you tell yourself you are exercising (when actually, you are not)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you flex your butt while brushing your teeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you flex your butt again while waiting for the elevator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you finally take the stairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you make love. You read in some magazines about the quantitative relationship between sex and energy expenditure. The 150 calories on average, per go, really adds up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you carry your child in one arm and change sides regularly, he is basically a dumbbell. (ha!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you dance (while drinking) and you persuade yourself that sweating is proof of your muscular exertion (and not just a sign that your body is trying to get rid of the alcohol through the pores of your skin). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you leave late for a meeting and you walk very fast to try to get there on time, you tell yourself that there are speed-walking competitions, so you are working out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you rode your bike to work until your bike got stolen. It was a good month while it lasted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you watch basketball on TV, shouting in support of your team, and you end up exhausted, concluding, “WE played well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you sit in the sauna. Because you have decided that this qualifies as “exercise”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you try to remember something because your memory is a muscle too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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