[Adapted and via Loic – in French]

I’m 32 years old and sometimes, I already feel that I’m getting older. Some ways to find out if it is the case for yourself (it just works if you are more or less in the same age as I):

A lot of students who will enter the University this year are born in 1985 (!)

They’ve never sung “We are the World, we are the children” or “Sunday bloody Sunday”

They’ve never heard something about “Raider”, they just know “Twix”

They’ve never played with an Atari or a Commodore64

They’ve perhaps never played at PacMan

They’ve never seen a 5 1/4 floppy

They don’t really understand what’s a LP

They don’t know how to watch TV without a remote control

They cannot image that somebody could watch a black-and-white TV

They think that James Bond was always played by Pierce Brosman

They think that Mickael Jackson was always white

They don’t know J.R.

Etc.

So, let’s just think about the fact that THESE guys will enter the University this year and that THEY are young now.

Other symptoms that you/we are getting older:

You understand the text above and you said at a minimum two times “my God”

You make sometimes some sport, perhaps two or three times yearly, and you tell everybody that you are making sport

The young people and the children are using “Mister/Madam” when they are talking with you

When you finished to read this blog, you decided to send it to some friends and you are convinced they will love it.

Keep cool, the only “good news” is that we are ALL getting older, even the young students who are reading this blog and are now laughing ;-)