sporadic thought bubbles

This list came to me while I was tossing and turning at 2 am, so forgive me if it’s a little incoherent.

You know you’re at least 25 years young when…

1) You bring a granny-sized payong to work/school/the palengke, and you couldn’t care less. You, who once would rather stew peacefully in acid rain than carry an umbrella that wasn’t fashionable, foldable, and fully automated can now wield this cane-like contraption a la fifth ninja turtle: stopping traffic, poking innocent bystanders, and (OMG) opening it to shield your fragile skin from getting the sun spots and age wrinkles that no Olay Total Effects could ever truly cure.

2) Your ipod is updated for you by a much cooler younger sibling, because you just can’t, for the life of you, sit there downloading songs that you’ll eventually learn are so 3 years ago. What, laos na ba si Billy Joe Crawford? This screamo stuff really hurts my ears.

3) You occasionally get low back pain. Unlike your parents, however, you still get horror-house images of being trapped inside a baul at the strong menthol-lola smell of Salonpas. So you suffer in silence, discreetly stretching from your neck to your pelvis when no one’s looking. Personally, I like to claim it’s the scoliosis (which is still an acceptable young-person-back-disease).

4) You do frantic face-name association rundowns whenever you bump into someone you know from somewhere, sometime. When the database comes up with zip, you are accustomed to flashing a mega-watt smile OR doing a semi-interested half nod and making a beeline for the nearest exit. Must’ve been in that brain cell you fried while downing that last shot of tequila.

5) You have more exes than prospects. Some of us have gone through the eligibility list so efficiently that prospects = exes. The real reason the world seems smaller when you’re older is that you’ve dated half of it.

6) You can talk about once-ballyhooed topics such as sex, drugs, and rock and roll without the necessary girlish giggle or pre-practiced disclaimers. Sometimes, you are amazed at how Carrie Bradshaw you’ve become. Or at how crazy the world really is once you’ve taken off your rose-colored glasses.

7) "See you soon" means "see you within this year", and "we should really go out one of these days" is actually "maybe once more before I die". You have so many sets of friends that it seems impossible to actually keep in touch while trying to hold down a steady job OR trying to watch pinoy big brother every single day. Then again, maybe that’s just cause I’ve always been horrible at keeping in touch. =)

and finally, (i’m getting to the point)

You just can’t be apathetic anymore. You’ve grown a conscience, (against all odds, I know) and you suddenly care about what life’s gonna be like 5, 10 years from now when you’re raising a family, juggling responsibilties, and shedding strands of hair. It’s got to get better. It’s got to get better.

I don’t wanna bore you so I’ll just lay the cards down right away.

Dr. Martin Bautista for Senator.

Dr. Dorothy Delarmente for QC District 1 councilor.

And AGHAM as your Partylist of choice.

Because you shouldn’t be wasting the next 25 years not caring.

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For more information on the above candidates, email me at kaipatoots@yahoo.com. I’ll be glad to fill you in. =)