lizathefriendlyghost:

call-me-al:

apiphile:

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the point when you become older than your parents were when you were born, which signals that your leg of the relay race has already begun, having coasted in their slipstream as they tackled the mountain stages of life, leaving you strong, energetic and deeply mortified by their loud yellow jerseys.

I am older than my mother was when I was born, but younger than my father was.

i’ll catch up with my mother in slightly less than sixteen years, and my father in slightly less than twenty-five.

…that’s honestly disturbing:  i’m more than halfway there.

I have…. 14 and 16 years for mum and dad respectively. Doing okay.

I passed this eight years ago.