Age-inappropriate interests: You're Not the Only One

It started a while back, probably in my mid-fifties, maybe a bit before, when I was still practicing law, corporate law mind you, quite complex stuff, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust cases, all… …

I don't know if this even counts, but I spend my nights playing video games with a bunch of kids — teenagers, mostly. …

” But then Saturday hits, and I’m at the community center, shuffling cards with Mrs. …

My wife, bless her heart, she thinks I'm still doing the work stuff, burning the midnight oil or whatever fancy phrase she uses, but really I'm just in my office, which used to be the guest bedroom… …

It’s more… something I can’t stop thinking about, something that just makes me so unbelievably angry every time it bubbles up. …

Last night, it hit me, proper, hard, a real *coup de grâce* to my carefully constructed composure. …

Supposed to be hitting up frat parties, doing stupid shit. …

I am SO sick of having to explain why I’m tired every single day — like, yeah, it’s the early morning client calls and the invoices, but mostly it’s the constant, all-night headshots I’m trying to… …

I'm literally in my seventies. …

And I’ve been thinking a lot about these plastic bricks, the tiny ones, the ones that click together with such a satisfying precision. …

Loud music, cheap beer, chasing whatever’s got a pulse, or pretending to. …

Like, I'm nineteen, busting my ass all week on a construction site, dust and noise and everyone just wants to hit the bar on Friday, right? …

My coworkers are still out there, probably doing coke in some shithole club, and I’m here, staring at my chipped paint and the stack of bridge books I’ve got piled next to my bed. …

The glowing RGB keyboard under the kitchen table. …

I started dancing a few months ago after the whole thing with the twins and the IVF falling through I just needed something to fill the weekends you know cause my wife was all about her yoga retreats… …

They call it… battle royale. …

I’m a freelancer, mostly graphic design stuff, some web dev when a client’s feeling flush. …

I’m talking about a brick wall. …

The worst part is… I spent my entire goddamn weekend at the community center. …

My thing is dropping into a totally chaotic, high-stakes battle royale with a bunch of kids who probably think I'm, like, some mysterious quiet genius. …