"I see old women who were beautiful young leading women in my pictures and it shocks me. Men don't but women do. The aging of a woman is always a shock when you haven't seen her in a number of years. They're attractive, but they're somebody else -- brand-new personalities. Men don't seem to change that way. They're idiots in the beginning and never get over it."
- Allan Dwan
Well, Allan's being cute, of course, but there's something kind of awesome about getting older. I turned thirty yesterday and do I feel like I've crossed some kind of threshold? No. But when I jumped up and down last night squealing, "I did it I did it, I'm a grownup now!" I did feel very adult.
And the above passage? It was inspired by Dwan running into Shirley Temple in a hotel lobby, yeas after she became a very grown-up woman with "Shirleys of her own." Dwan barely recognized her until she ran up to him and hugged him. The fact that I burst into tears when I read this? Makes me very happy to be a girl, and a completely grown up one at that.
3 comments:
Happy birthday! As someone who was essentially 30 from age 20 on, I know what you mean about that feeling of having really made it to grown-up status. I'm raising a glass to you now!
Thanks Levi!
I think my real age will finally catch up with my mental age when I'm about 80. I'm very forgetful and I enjoy saying inappropriate things and offering strange children candy.
Belated happy birthday to you!
Your real age will never catch up with your mental age because you think too fast. I predict and hope it will always be so.
Cheers buddy.
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