Like Sour Milk

I use to hear people say they were aging like a fine wine and for some I can't help but agree.  However, for the majority of us I would say we are aging like milk and every passing year our issues get uglier for the following reasons: 

1) We assume we know everything.  We are full of negativity towards places and people that are different.  I see too many social media posts about how city life is terrible from people who live in small towns...it is not.  The truth is every place has its ups and downs and each place has it's own draw for different people.  We become stuck on our notions of what is good and what we know in stone that we forget people grow and are capable of anything.  We stop learning.  We assume. 

2) To divorce or not to divorce or stay miserably married.  To be brutally honest I would say about ten percent of my married friends are actually happy. Of the other 90 percent 45 percent are alright and the remainder are having affairs, fights, swinging, sleeping in separate rooms, it ain't pretty.   It seems the older we get the more incapable we have become to express our true emotions and stand by them out of fear of being alone.  We reached an age where we decided so many factors mattered more than being happy and this isn't right. 

3) Change is bad.  I hear so many people the older they get that they could never move, or go on a long vacation, or try something new because blah, blah, blah...Change is actually amazing.  Careers and children can be built up around the world.  There is no excuse to abandon your dreams because you settled.  Anything is possible.  And, I see a lot of petty back stabbing and judging of single women travelling the world.  Haters gonna hate.  They ask how she got the money and assume she is sleeping around in her travels.  It is jealousy at its finest.  

4) Issues.  Sadly with divorce, separation and more and more failed relationships as age brings more and more men and women have assumptions.  Turn down your crazy and realize that every single person is different.  While I think age has yet to bring out the best in our generation.  We all need to realize not everyone cheats, not everyone lies, not everyone is the same.  We need to get over our issues and stop being so sour towards each other. 

I love wine. While I do believe there are some people who have truly grown through heart ache and their life changes into beautiful human beings, there are too many people who are turning sour.  Go on that vacation, leave that cheating spouse, go back to school. Go towards your dreams and be happy because life is way to short for all this sour milk.