In twenty years, i will be forty-two, and that scares the crap out of me. I am afraid of growing old, there are a few reasons why, or at least the reasons why i think i feel this way. First, is I think when i reach my forties or so i am going to look back and be disappointed with how i turned out. I know i am not where i want to be in life now, what if it just keeps snowballing and i don't accomplish anything in life. I realize 20 years is a long time to get back on track and become who i want to be, but i just don't see it happening.
Another reason is, my Grandmother died of Alzheimer's disease, and as her grand daughter i have a sixty-six percent chance of getting the disease. I watched my grandmother die a slow, painful, and frightening death and i do not want to go through that. I don't want to forget my family and friends, it is a lonely disease and i don't want to die alone.
Menopause is another reason, it just seem ridiculously miserable to me and kind of unnecessary. Our body's put us through an awful lot of bs just for us to stop having babies. Years of hot flashes and hormonal imbalances. Seems cruel to me, i mean don't we suffer enough through the forty plus years we have of periods and pregnancy?
The last reason is kind of a conceded one, but i just don't want to get old, like i don't want to get old people skin, saggy boobs, or wrinkles. I like the way i look, and i don't want it to change. I mean my breasts sag enough as it is..i can not imagine them in twenty years. I don't want to get old, I am watch my mom and all my aunts go through it...I do not want.