One of my parody songs that never got finished, "Matronang Tunay" was supposed to be a "Marry The Night" parody about a bitter geriatric "(na) miss nang makatikim ng 'sang guy". I never got to finish another parody song since. I've long mused of feeling geriatric, but having passed a quarter-century of my life I can't help but feel that I might as well be at my twilight years. People at my age are either running a start-up company, a graduate student, a money-hoarding yuppie, or raising a family of 2-3 spoiled and screeching kids. People at my age are expected to be full productive members of society, whose supposed liveliness of youth and high purchasing power contributes to a healthy economy and national progress. Yet here I am feeling I'll be taken over by stroke or arthritis or incontinence at any given moment.
I'm at a dead end. And who knows, one day I might just find myself knitting on a rocking chair while reminiscing the good ol' days, wondering where I might have placed the glasses I'd worn just a moment ago.
