Timeless....vainty!

To quote a mug my friend bought me ........"you are only young once, but you can stay immature forever".

Age is more than just a number or is it?

In mycase the figure must be halved when I behave like I'm still 18, merrily trying to squeeze into my decade old jeans or get starry eyed when I see Tom Cruise on TV.

Other times, I'm double my age, hoarding plastic food contaniners and worry about osteoporosis!

I would like to believe I can still pass a twenthysomething (well maybe not anymore when I am trumpeting my age), but seriously whats the big deal admitting to how many years one has lived? What would shaving a copuple of years off accomplish?

I'm surprised though, by how coy some women and even men - supposedly the less vain half of the species - are about their age.

In Singapore, the newspapers are almost fanatical about revealing the age of the individuals. I was told by a journalist friend here that to believe the news about a Mr Tan, 19, biting a dog has a different slant from a Mr Tan who is 91!

For one, readers would wonder how an elederly Mr Tan at 91 is expected to have all his teeth intact :) Right?

So does it all boil down to vanity?

In my case, I dont know where I stand - timeless, ageless, I guess.

Far from being in denial, I'm very aware that I dont act my age - whatever that means - and this can hardly keep track of how old I atually am. Half-jokingly, my mother says : I'm an immature 30 something who did not get past 20. Not only do I not act my age, I'm constantly regressing".

I feel the more stressful and busy work gets, the more important it is to be in touch with your inner juvenile delinquent. I know I can act serious and mature when the time calls for it, at work, but the rest of the time I am not too sure I act my age.

I cheekily proclaim.....the 30's are now the 20's! and I shall want to celebrate life outrageously, every day and forever!