Ch..Ch...Changes: Turn and Face the Strange

At my job, we hire college students to help with the daily processing of documents. We call them work-studies. I was training one of my new work-studies today and we had to call the IT help desk to help her authenticate her log-in credentials. While she was on the phone, they asked her some questions to help prove that she was who she said she was. One of those questions was when she was born. This particular student was born in 1992. My heart dropped. She was born two years after I graduated from high school. I asked another workstudy when she was born. 1989. I was a junior in high school. I came to realize that college students today were born between my sophomore year of high school and two years after I graduated. Yikes! It never occurred to me until today that I was already a college student when these adults were born. I could feel my bones creak as I realized this. I suddenly hunched over and I swear more gray hairs began to instantaneously appear in my hair. I suddenly felt like I had to hold a paper at arms length in order to read it....and that I needed to complain about the "crazy music" of today's kids. I am feeling old today. I'll be 38 in less than a month. I don't really feel old...but these little revelations are starting to sink in and that makes me realize that I am getting older. It's strange. As David Bowie says "Ch..ch..ch...ch...changes....Turn and face the strange...Ch..ch..ch..changes...Pretty soon you're gonna get older." You said it, David Bowie! The ironic thing is that most college students today have no idea who David Bowie is. Now that's scary!