{"id":7436,"date":"2015-01-05T17:36:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-05T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T17:36:41","slug":"why_i_suddenly_don_t_want_to_be_older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/05\/why_i_suddenly_don_t_want_to_be_older\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Suddenly Don\u2019t Want to Be Older"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve always wanted to be older. And even when I hit my sixties, it was still true. I never had a problem getting older. It didn\u2019t panic me, it didn\u2019t worry me, but all of a sudden, driving in today, for some reason, I had the first-ever negative twinge about getting older. Plus I got a birthday coming up next week. In fact, it\u2019s a week from today. Not a hint. Don\u2019t do anything. And I said, “What is this?” This is totally new ground for me, totally unfamiliar territory. Why am I getting — and I thought about it, and you know what it is? <\/p>\n

All my fantasies, they\u2019ve got hardly any chance of coming true. It finally just hit me. All of my life, when I was young, my fantasies, every one of \u2019em, I had a reasonable belief, could come true. And for some reason I\u2019m driving in today, I said, “Well, I guess most of them there\u2019s no chance now.” And half of \u2019em, if they did come true, I wouldn\u2019t be interested anymore because the people involved are no longer attractive. So I guess I\u2019m able to relate to most people now who have a problem getting older. But mine is not about my actual life. I haven\u2019t any problem with that. <\/line><\/p>\n

But the sudden realization that the likelihood my fantasies are gonna remain fantasies, now that\u2019s a shocker. I\u2019m such an optimist that I\u2019ve always believed my fantasies were gonna happen at some point and I was not gonna have to force \u2019em, and I was not gonna have to set \u2019em up and actively make them happen. I\u2019ve always believed they were just gonna happen. And I\u2019m not talking about weird pervo things, folks. Don\u2019t start dreaming here. Well, when you say fantasies, you know what most people start thinking of. They start thinking of — I\u2019m not talking about those. I have always been realistic to know those were never gonna happen. (laughing)<\/p>\n

But the others that all of my life I thought would, well, now there is not enough time. And it\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s that even if they did, I wouldn\u2019t care now. Now, that\u2019s depressing, isn\u2019t it? That was a bit sobering. So I had to gut it up. I had to purge all those negative thoughts as I was driving in today, get in the proper frame of mind to do the program today. And I did. I pulled it off, so we\u2019re ready to go. Fear not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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