Life at 40 is quirky

Envying the denims in 20s,

Copying the trends of 30s,

Trying to look attractive in the mirror,

Life at 40s is definitely quirky.

Loving the 4-course meals,

Magically presenting oneself at wedding feast;

Stealing a bite from child’s chocolate,

Life at 40s is wonderfully quirky.

Failing miserably to exercise

Trying not to visit the doc,

Yearning to look like Fashionista Ms. Funny bones,

Life at 40s is interestingly quirky.

Criticizing the millennial romance,

Dreaming about M & B,

Longing for the noon nap every day,

Waiting for the tea time gossip,

Pretending to sound intellectual

Ending up like R.K. Laxman’s Common man,

Claiming to have been born in “Good old days…”

Life at 40 in sympathetically quirky.

Reveling in other’s problems

Thanking our stars that

We are not the victims like them.

Smirking at neighbor’s troubles;

Dodging at our kid’s request for shopping

Crying along with the others,

Laughing at ourselves when alone,

Glaring at kith and kin who call us aunty,

Life at 40s – with its ups and down, is terrifically      Quirky.