Tallulah formally accepts the new Marketing Hype

Having just read Yaye's dissertation on her age which if she keeps going she will be creating a bizarre Yaye fact that she'll wake up 60 next year . I know, we've been down this road before way way back when turning 29. Yaye had this "comforting" way of explaining, when we were 29 we were in fact 30. Perhaps I'm just a big old coward, but actually facing the whole theory which Yaye and other eastern philosphies believe that the 9 month belly gestation means we're pretty much a year when we're born sans three months which means in my mathmatically challenged glass is half empty head we're closer to 41 than even 39 or 40.

So, I would like to formally accept the new marketing hype that the 40s are the new 20s and that the 60s are the new 30s as my mother's Modern Maturity mag once said ( I recall it had Lauren Hutton on the cover). This means however, if the 40s are the new 20s and the 60s are the 30's does this mean the 50's are an extention of the 20s or perhaps the 50s are a reprieve from aging?

I can honestly say I'm afraid of aging more than I ever thought I would be. Recalling a conversation that Yaye and I had at the tender age of 23 in the advent of alpha hydroxy, I proudly boasted that I would never freak out at age. Aaaahhhh the idealism of youth. But why is it that I'm so afraid? Have I not done what I'm supposed to do with my life? Perhaps that is what creates fear of aging. Ohmigawd, I don't even, like, know what I want to do with my life and it's almost over.