What it means to be 27

What it means to be 27.

In dog years I'm already dead. Not to start on a negative but its true, whoever heard of a 191 year old dog? So, I'm now dead if I was a dog, but on the upside hurtling towards an era where sleeping with someone half my age isn't a crime. Am I 'getting old'? I'm not even really sure what getting old means! So why fight it? Its chasing us all...Old age. Not long ago I had one of those soul crushing moments, you know the ones, where you realize your turning into your mother or father and you question who you even are anymore! I was binge watching a TV show with no sex, no drugs and absolutely no rock and roll - and enjoying it? Does watching hours of Time Team, Countdown and Diagnosis murder simply imply in itself that I am getting old? Who knows, who cares? I enjoy them all the same. I can still remember a time where watching Tony Robinson run around a rainy field in Lincolnshire in a pair of worn out wellies would have literally bored me to the grave. Now I want to be in there digging them. So, my secret is out. My names Ami, I'm 27 and I like to binge watch Time Team, and I loved Tony Robinson in that old Robin Hood series. Yes I'm also old enough to remember that as well.

I was asked for ID for age verification purposes the other day. Pretty impressive I thought, until I realised I had no ID on me.

 "How old are you?"

 '27'

 'really? 27? your very short, are you sure your 27?.' 

Yes I am sure. If I was lucky enough to be 17, believe me, the fictional age I picked would not have been 27. What 17 year old wants to be 27? Not once have I ever heard a teenager say "oh I cant wait till I'm 27", 'now give me my beer.'

 My Nan always said a closed mouth gathers no feet. I should try and remember that for the next 27. Ive nearly died a few times, thats something interesting I guess. Being faced with your own mortality in all its glory hasa certain way of making you realise; my mortality will eventually be the death of me. Personally, having put much thought into this, death does not scare me. Living forever scares me. So I guess in that respect its comforting to know that one of lifes only certainties is definately coming - at some point. Thank God. I dont know why people say that.'Thank God.' I dont even believe in any God. But lets not get into religion. Its a messy subject and I refer you back to my earlier saying about mouths and feet.