People have started to offer me their seats on the bus. But I don’t mind. Far from denying my age, I am going to flaunt it
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianPhotograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian’m 60 on 29 December. Wooohooo! For the past five years, I’ve already been thinking of myself as 60, and now I’m ready to truly embrace it. Presumably, on 30 December I’ll start thinking of myself as 70.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Paris and, for the first time in my life, people stood up to offer me a seat on public transport. Twice. I might well have taken offence in the recent past. Not now, though. If you’re a young ’un and you offer me your seat on the tube or bus, I’ll happily take it. When people remark that my hair is grey and thinning, I’ll say: so it should be. When people laugh at me running, I’ll think: well, at least I’m still mobile.
Nor did I expect to hold down a job for 36 years, let alone a job at the same place, let alone one at the Guardian. I’ve met senior editors who have been so disappointed with their life achievements because they expected more. I didn’t.I grew up in the age of Thatcherism, missed three years of school, and never had a dream. I didn’t set the bar low. I never had a bar. And there’s a beauty to that. Any achievement was a plus.
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