Nine-year-olds act as if they’re that old, 80-year-olds imagine they’re that young. Nowadays everybody in America is, one way or another, 25. Not old old, but probably older than you. But the former total youthfulness is gone, and I’d have to say, much as I regret the adjective, I’m starting to be more on the “old” side.
True, I’m still fit, tough, competent, and probably one of the leading outdoorsmen in the world. AWKWARD AS THIS IS TO ADMIT, I’m no longer extremely young.
