When you realize it has been decades ago you know you are old

As you go through life you accumulate a lot of things that you buy along the way. At the time you get them you see a need for each and every one of them. But when you go through a cabinet and find things you bought decades ago you know you are old. Just the words decades ago sounds ancient. I remember the day I looked in the mirror and said wow you look 50 years old. I immediately began laughing as I realized I really was 50 years old. That is five decades. I remember the day my father in law visited me decades ago and it was at my house that he looked in my bathroom mirror and realized he was old.  We talked about how strange it was to look so old yet in his mind he thought like he did when he was a young man. Even decades later when we talked he said his mind was still young but his body definitely was aging. As I looked in the mirror at the image of an old person staring back at me no matter how young my mind felt it was  a fact that without a doubt, I was old. It is a good thing to feel young at heart but when you are old so is your heart so don't wear it out doing things it just can't handle.