#getting older

You're only as old as you feel

is not comforting😒

where the houses look normal, made out of wood and the driveways are made out of concrete

there’s trees everywhere, the squirrels and dragonflies are all around the lawns

the sky is blue, not whatever colour it’ll be in the distant future, and the sun is warm on my face and not an entity to be feared just yet

I’m officially past the age of ‘no return’ (as if you can return to an age)

and I can’t help but wonder how I’d explain to anyone in that distant future, one that’s defined by the wars and epidemics and conflict and climate change, how freaking good we had it