After all we are only in our 40s. Sometimes I wonder if my children think of me as some old woman, just like I did of my mother. I don’t think so though. I hope not!
There were few distractions. We were either playing ten-ten, hopscotch, or reading Archie comics. Parents could easily control what we had access to. They were our biggest influencers. Today, social media rules the roost. I am no Luddite. But the difference between today’s swiping across diverse touch-enabled devices and yesterday’s touchy-feely ways lay in the small things. Then, we bought birthday cards and waited till midnight to sing “Happy birthday” to our parents and siblings.
I always thought my mother was old. As far as I was concerned 40, 45-years was old age. I think my mother agreed too. I don’t recall my parents or other parents disputing the fact that they were old. They were so into “respect” and “culture” that they just seemed old. We were often told to curtsey or prostrate to greet our elders, their friends, and our aunties and uncles and this definitely made them seem old in our view.
After all we are only in our 40s. Sometimes I wonder if my children think of me as some old woman, just like I did of my mother. I don’t think so though. I hope not!
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