Random thoughts

It is my youngest child’s birthday today and I am really happy he is hale and hearty and all despite his being sickly when he was a child. But him adding getting older also drives home the fact that I am getting closer to being that old and cranky Nana, and that realization rolls down a cascade of other dreadful thoughts that someone pushing sixty has to face. For me who likes to think I am the female Peter Pan, staying young is indeed a no-trip to Neverland. ?

But then again, what’s getting old if it means gaining a lot more wisdom? And it also entails having a lot more time to do things one simply could not do while still young and eking out a living. Like reading. And gardening. Then reading. And watching Netflix. Then reading. And doting over the grandkids when they come visit. Then reading. And solving crossword puzzles. Then reading. And stumbling over a chat site like this one. Then reading.

Yep, I am a voracious reader. I had a slew of books some years ago that termites devoured, and so now I resorted to a library of e-books. There are a ton of them to download for free, though nothing beats the smell and feel of actual books. I often go to bookstores and  riffle through the pages of certain books just to get the feel and smell of them. Weird, eh? But don’t we all have an eccentricity or two that make us all the more interesting? 

My interest is piqued easily by people who are in a way unconventional. Maybe I got the sense of individualism rubbed off on me by reading Ayn Rand years ago, or maybe it’s just that I am way too regular that I am awed by those not cut from the same cloth. A curious realization though: so many “new” things have been happening a lot in this world, thanks in a large part to the proliferation of social media trends, that what we thought of before as ridiculous – nay, impossible – are actually the current norms. TikTok challenges are all the rage, how-to-make-a-bomb and all such preoccupations get millions of views on YouTube, Twitter wars and FaceBook shaming are all just everyday fares now. Life as we knew it certainly got radically curiouser and curiouser.  

Curiosity as to what Senior Chatters is all about is what compelled me to try this site out. And lest I just get too annoying for all the ramblings, I guess this will do for now as a glimpse of who I am. Here’s hoping I get a glimpse of who you are too.