Speaker 1: So I'm here in San Francisco with one of my
Speaker 1: best friends of thirty years, and we were having we've
Speaker 1: been having all these discussions about life, catching up on
Speaker 1: our lives, talking about the world and stuff, and I
Speaker 1: was I was having this thought, and I wanna share
Speaker 1: it with you all, because that's why I have the
Speaker 1: show fifty plus to share with you kind of the
Speaker 1: thoughts that go through my head and sometimes you too
Speaker 1: when you're fifty plus. My friend sixty five just turned
Speaker 1: sixty five. I asked him, how's it feeling, And it's funny.
Speaker 1: We a the thing we came to we both agree on.
Speaker 1: People say age is nothing but a number, and that
Speaker 1: is true, maybe not for how people think when they
Speaker 1: say it, but it's here, and here's my thought on that.
Speaker 1: It's you're right, M. When you turn twenty one, there
Speaker 1: is no specific feeling for twenty one. We assign thoughts
Speaker 1: about turning twenty one. We assign a M. It's a
Speaker 1: milestone marker. So there's no official If it makes this
Speaker 1: make sense, there's no official feeling when you're when you
Speaker 1: turn twenty one, a certain feeling doesn't happen or not
Speaker 1: happen all of a sudden, cause it's it's literally up
Speaker 1: to you how you feel in twenty one, it's brought off.
Speaker 1: The feelings are brought on by you. So fifty sixty
Speaker 1: or I was saying a think life, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I was saying for me, this is the first
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty four that I feel this age group
Speaker 1: and that is the fifty five and up crowd. I
Speaker 1: actually kind of feel it. There was no clique. Like
Speaker 1: I said on my birthday on May tenth, I didn't
Speaker 1: just suddenly feel a certain way that was a sign
Speaker 1: to that age fifty five. But I am feeling the
Speaker 1: generalness of what this age can feel. I can bring.
Speaker 1: We're talking about our parents or aging parents, who's left,
Speaker 1: who's older than us, the younger generation, they what they're
Speaker 1: saying and doing. You We're talking about all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: and that's what's really interest seem to me. It's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is the first year I'm really feeling older. I
Speaker 1: was I trained the other day and a guy was like, oh,
Speaker 1: about the same age. Now, I'm thinking he was actually younger.
Speaker 1: I looked at him and I thought he thought he
Speaker 1: was thirties and forties. He goes, well, I'm fifty. He
Speaker 1: looked good for his age. I was like, so I
Speaker 1: do look fifty to him. It was the first time
Speaker 1: someone said I looked like I was in my fifties.
Speaker 1: Be those were said in my forties. I even got
Speaker 1: thirty eight, thirty nine, but I just get forties. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I almost look First, I was like, I must look tired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mostly tired. That's crazy. No, But it was like,
Speaker 1: now look in the mirror, and I'm like, okay, look
Speaker 1: at my hands, look a little older. Why I take
Speaker 1: care of my skin and stuff my face. It was
Speaker 1: like looking looking a little older and still take care
Speaker 1: of myself. But it's like, wow, I'm not ashamed of
Speaker 1: it or like I wasn't hurt by it, but just
Speaker 1: like it just kind of caught me off guard. Like
Speaker 1: I to some folks, I'm probably an old man. That's
Speaker 1: how I'm viewed. And but I'm also feeling the weight
Speaker 1: of the grown children, the grandchildren, the aging parents, that
Speaker 1: whole they're so sandwich direction thing I've talked about before.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling it this year and also in my work.
Speaker 1: My age has come in handy and it's been a
Speaker 1: benefit to me getting some of these gigs, to me
Speaker 1: getting some of the clients, and for me to come
Speaker 1: across as credible. It's given me gravitas. I do have
Speaker 1: letters after my name. I do have experiences, you know.
Speaker 1: And my friend and I am going back toys talking
Speaker 1: about life. We're able to share experiences because he's well traveled.
Speaker 1: I'm well traveled. He's well read. I'm well read. He's
Speaker 1: just he's lived sixty five years. I lived thirty five years.
Speaker 1: That's why I appreciate is that we can talk and
Speaker 1: have conversations about long ranging topics and it's just, oh,
Speaker 1: it's okay. And I think that's what's really important. I
Speaker 1: think people almost forget that we can do that and
Speaker 1: it's okay. But age brings that. But in everyday life,
Speaker 1: I don't always feel any age, right. I just feel
Speaker 1: like James. I don't know that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means, but I just feel like I'm meet But
Speaker 1: there's no particular age. There are times when I feel
Speaker 1: very youthful, and there are times I feel like I
Speaker 1: like I should be. I'm one foot in the grave
Speaker 1: the money, know how I am. I'm also at that
Speaker 1: age and many of you guys wanna relate to this
Speaker 1: where I am, where I have a pain or an
Speaker 1: ache somewhere in my body, somewhere even you know. We
Speaker 1: were talking last night for a last night about getting dinner,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't wanna walk three blocks
Speaker 1: up and down these secle streets to go over to
Speaker 1: that place. So I the old days I've been screaming
Speaker 1: and run down the street, but those days are over.
Speaker 1: My friend Michelle, I'm talking to her and she's just like,
Speaker 1: we're all we're all this around the same age and
Speaker 1: we all have the same I have younger friends, and
Speaker 1: I watched them navigate stuff, and I'm like, that's how
Speaker 1: I used to be. I get it. So when they
Speaker 1: view they look at me, and they view me sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm just an old guid to them. I mean it's
Speaker 1: well meaning or not or happiest or whatever, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of like I say something they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's such a one of my friends coming up Boomer
Speaker 1: the other day and I'm like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: heard I the way I said. I said, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can see why it sounds that way, and I stand
Speaker 1: by what I said, Like I'm not apologizing I did
Speaker 1: say that, I mentioned it, and that's life, Like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's crazy. So yeah, it's it's it's a trip,
Speaker 1: say least those are thoughts. Well, I'm here in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: here for work, and I'm also a house and cats sitting,
Speaker 1: and he's talking to a good friend and brings all
Speaker 1: reflection a little bit. Now he's he's left to go
Speaker 1: on a trip. When I watched his house, I'll see
Speaker 1: when he gets back. But I was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and actually what's funny is and they don't listen to
Speaker 1: my shows anyway, but I'm going to They don't let
Speaker 1: my kids will Grantkis will know this. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: see them after I leave. I'm gonna stop by their
Speaker 1: place my way home and surprise them. I love surprising them.
Speaker 1: I love just gonna show him going Hi. I love
Speaker 1: to reading that, so I'm gonna do that. I'm my bike.
Speaker 1: I'm James On Junior. This is fifty plus. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you also, and if you have any
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