Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Brutal Revelations


Look at us...just a week ago we were carefree and happy, assuming that our best years were still ahead of us.

And then yesterday the headlines screamed the news:

Old Age Begins at 27!

The Brain's Ability Peaks at 22!

Brain Decline Starts at 27!


We're not sure where to go from here. Realizing now that we've already been old for more than 15 years.

Have we been living a lie all this time???

6 comments:

  1. I knew I was old the first time I mowed the lawn after I turned 30 and tweaked my back. And being a mother and having the conversations I do with my children (ie trying to convince Abby that Elmo was not, in fact, a liar because combs do, in fact, have teeth) my brain has almost completely become mush. I used to be very intelligent and I still get glimpses of that once in a while, but I have no hope of remembering anything anymore...

    So as scary as it seems, I'm living proof! LOL

    Of course, maybe frequent trips to Hawaii sans children make your brain cells rejuvenate... so there is hope yet.

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  2. Hm... I dunno... this week I'm wondering if my brain peaked last month and now I'm on the downhill side. I've been so out of it since getting back from NC that it's just not even funny. Lots of things like putting something in the microwave rather than the fridge.

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  3. What purpose do they have in publishing those research findings? Are they trying to get kids to go to college straight out of high school? I mean, they are potentially offending the majority of their readership by such declarations. Just my take. :D

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  4. Amy, good point. Perhaps I'd better start planning the next trip now! Except that it seems to have had negative effects on Cindy Lynn.

    Megan--I'd assume the research was published by scientists, who have no purpose other than to research, and then to publish that research!

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  5. Yes - I am this far behind in reading blogs... :) Actually, more, because I just read your "This I Know" posts as well - fabulous.

    Anyway - I'm feeling very depressed at the moment because I just had my 27th birthday THREE days ago!!! I should have read this before now so I could have appreciated the last few days of my youth. :)

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  6. Lindsay, I'm so sorry that I didn't get this news to you in time for you to enjoy the end of your youth!

    Oh well....welcome to old age!

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