IN-B-SENIORS

The English language is so awesome and confusing and continually changing. I am fascinated by language and often wonder where words came from.  I picture a cave man dropping one rock on another and a spark leaping up. The cave man reacts with a  startled grunt, (which probably meant, "Holy crap! What was that?") and then thousands of years later we have the word FIRE. How did we get from that grunt to the word? We are always adding new words to our vocabulary. There was an article in the paper the other day about some new word that pertains to texting and tweeting and I didn't have a clue what the word was or what it was used for. It could have been ancient Sanskrit and I wouldn't have understood it any more that what I was reading. New words enter our lives and we don't even realize they are sneaking in. The word COMPUTER would mean nothing to some one living 100 years ago just as there are words from 100 years ago that we would have no idea what they meant.

I have decided to create my own word to help identify myself and my friends. IN-B-SENIORS are all us folks who are definitely senior citizens because we are over 55 but we aren't old yet because we are under 85. We are the 60 and 70 year olds who are in between. Sort of like the TWEENS who roam the mall on any given day armed with mommy's credit card. The children range in age from 8 to 12 and are in between being children and teenagers, thus the name Tweens.

So why can't we have inbseniors?  Or maybe we could be called TWEENIORS. We are too old to be considered young . . .  like we are beyond child bearing age, (THANK YOU GOD!) We are tired and want to stop working and start living. We are ready to "Live the Good Life". And we are too YOUNG to just lie down and die! We have a lot of living yet to do and some energy left over from raising families and working. We can still see and hear and still have valid drivers licences. We could probably even PASS a drivers test if we had to. (Which I think would be a GREAT idea!) We are no longer the "SANDWICH" generation, we are finally the top slice of bread that makes up the sandwich. We still have some life in these old bones and some smarts in our heads. Once the eye sight starts going, along with the hearing and the mental ability to know what your name is then you move into the SENIOR group but I don't think we really have gotten there yet.

My kids would probably argue the fact that I think I am not "THERE YET" but I figure as long as I can work my computer, smart phone and ipad then I'm not that old yet.