A upside of working from home is that I can literally roll out of bed and open my laptop. Which is a quick enough commute that I can basically sleep until five minutes before my work day technically begins.
The downside to that is the fact that if I don't get up early enough, I have to start working before my aching, aging bones are ready for it.
If I don't wake up early enough, just tapping the keys on my laptop makes my knuckles sound like an old mechanical keyboard and sends uncomfortable aches throughout the muscles of my palm.
But back then, it was mostly just a problem in gym class when the sport of the day happened to involve a lot of balls impacting my hands.
Since I have never been athletic, I mostly saw it as a bonus when I got to sit out penalty-free whenever volleyball, basketball, tennis, etc. was on the agenda.
Which is great, but the deterioration of my hands has never stopped.
And now the rest of my body seems to be catching up with them.
Or in my case, my dogs? Yeah, that's impossible now.
When the time comes to move and face the world, I guarantee that there will be at least some popping joints and muffled groans. Often, those are joined by curse words I can't print here.
If this is me now, what will I sound like in another ten years?
