getting older

is a strange thing. I never thought that I would ever feel

 older or notice myself growing up. In fact I remember 

being young and thinking this exact thing. That it seemed 

strange to me how my parents and how adults are and how 

one day I'd be expected to be one of them. Now that I'm older

I have noticed the changes in myself and the people around

me or in some the lack of changes. It's a strange thing to see

 the same look in the eyes of younger people that I remember

 seeing in my own not so long ago or what seemed not so long ago.

I see certain things that have developed in myself that I 

recognize as what had seemed so foreign to me

all those years ago in my parents and adults. 

I still make plenty of childish mistakes and 

sometimes I fail to have the same honed awareness

 that my parents seem to have but it is still certainly a strange thing

 to finally feel the effects of age or maybe maturity.