Signs of Ageing ;)

They say “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”One should not regret growing older…after all it is a privilege denied to many {I aint sure whether to use a smiling smiley here :) or a saddy one :(}. . .One common thing I hear people saying to me is,”Saniya ! Please act your age” :.I always end up either behaving like I was five years younger or five years too mature for my age .It basically depends on one’s mood huh?By the way,when do you decide that you have grown up ?Even after years of futile efforts not to,I guess finally I HAVE grown up !
I keep thinking about this and I came up with a few reasons as to why do I think so.I am listing a few here,you can add up to the list.You know you’re a grown up :

1)When the frequency of your “walekum-assalams” becomes more than the frequency of “assalam-o-alaikums” in a family gathering :

2)When you start hiding your physical/emotional pains from your parents because you think it’s ‘not their age’ to get worried and it’s time for you to take over the “worrying” part.

3)When you find yourself filling up those “Help Age India” forms for kids of the locality for whom even a 10 rupee note is a big treasure which it was for you too in the recent past.

4)When you know you aren’t expected to change your style of signature every other day :D{I remember changing mine atleast 10 times ever since I learnt to write and infact I still struggle with the way I write S –get it different each time somehow :D !}

5)When you watch “Chota Bheem” on Pogo and feel a little reluctant to share this information with your friends{ohh and i’m doin it on my blog :O :O,anyway whoever said we were just talking abt ME:D(damn,I’m such a bigmouth!)}

6)When calorie content becomes more important than the taste :(

7)When you have atleast 5 sets of friends,friends from school, friends from college, friends from the colony, friends from office, friends from the company, friends from the internet, friends from “BB” :D etc etc.

8)When you eat “Pan Pasand toffee” with a nostalgic feeling and give it a “long time no see welcome hug “:D.

9)When you have trouble writing Hindi spellings because the last time you wrote Hindi was some 6 years back in 10th std final exam(and were actually pretty relieved to get rid of it :D).

10)When a 3 year old kurta does not fit you anymore,not because of the length changes but because of the breadth changes ;) :D

11)When you see a 5 year old photograph of yours and say,”Ohh no ! Was that me !!!??!!I didn’t have a sense of style then.”(and you end up saying that again 5 years later looking at today’s pic ;)).

12)When you have atleast one or more of the following problems :hairfall,dark circles,over/under weight,backache,poor eye-sight,bad memory,yellow teeth(:P)o r atleast a pimple(cmon! You gotta agree on this atleast:p).

13)When you start seeing through people !You can see the right/wrong in people irrespective of the words they use.

14)When you say,”Even this shall pass.” And you actually believe in it,however hard.

15)When you have had atleast one serious crush and atleast one serious heartbreak :(.

16)When it becomes difficult to simply trust anybody/everybody who comes your way !

17)When you start spending your time more and more in things that you might not enjoy every much but are “need of the hour” like reading Economic times(even without actually wanting to).

18)When you’ve seen your favorite actor transitioning from playing the lead role to playing the role of elder bro/father/uncle of the lead .

19)When you see Cartoon Network and say cartoons were so much cuter in our times,they don’t make the likes of “Johhny Quest”,”Captain Planet”,”Swat Cats” anymore !

20)When you no more feel like sitting in the piggy train/merry-go-round forever and ever ;){Guys pls don’t drag any FLUES in this plsssss :X).

21)When the Dragon Train rides don’t scare you as much) !

22)When your body clock synchronizes with the wall clock because you have been getting up the same time doing the same stuff over years and years !

All this and much more does make me wonder whether it’a a good news that I have grown up or a sad one ? .I still love it when people say to me,”Saniya,Grow Up!”,since that means the kid in me is still alive and I hope it remains :D
Suggestions/feeback,good/bad are most welcome :)
[P.S. : I might have made some spelling mistakes or there might be some typos,please point those out and I shall correct them.TIA :)]