I'm feeling old

From time to time, I find grey hairs on my head... all over my head my temples, and my beard. But that is not why I feel old.

I am slower and less flexible now than I have ever been before. But that is not why I am feeling old.

I can remember the introduction of Jolt Cola, and its original slogan. But that is not why I feel old.

I read some of these journals, and see people on the street passionantly displaying thier beliefs. I wonder, what has happened to the fervant idealism of my youth?

I envy those willing to go out and get arressted for thier beliefs. But I feel like I can not join them. I work with kids afterall. What parent would want thier child taught by someone with a record?

Not that there is anything I consider worthy of getting arressted right now.

I'm definantly pro war, but I am not definatly anti war either. I don't want war, but I also don't want the alternative that avoiding war would bring about.

Here I sit, in the shades of gray.