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This is What it Feels Like to Get Old
It’s like watching someone drown in quicksand. I must be turning into the Tin Man because it hurts to move now that I’m not working out regularly. I’m just doing housework and it’s 8:17 PM and I’m flat on my back on top of a heating pad. I know that I used to go to the gym where I would spend three hours, lifting and swimming. And now I can barely get around the grocery store, the Walmart. I looked for that electric cart today. I used it. The bottom of my feet was hurting so bad. I don’t know why I was out early. I’m out during pensioners' hours. It’s a bunch of old people, gray and white-haired people moving slowly with their aches and pains. It must be evil spirits because I can’t be slowing down already even though I feel like the Tin Man. I feel rusty. I feel stiff and it’s mostly my back. The magnets work. I ordered some magnets from Amazon. (Sidenote: they work, you tape them to your back. Tape comes with it but after a couple weeks, I felt like ...
