As a kid, my friends and I used to joke about grumpy old men. There was even a movie with the same title that came out that seemed to justify our sentiments.
These days, those jokes hit closer to home.
Now that I’m in my mid-forties, I am self-diagnosed with what I call “Early-Onset Curmudgeoness.” It’s completely made up but seems to get at what I feel I have been experiencing.
I feel a creeping tendency to grump about things and become a curmudgeon well before my time. And the grumping can be about anything, depending especially on how much sleep I’ve gotten.
I’m not sure there’s a cure for it. Like the grumpy old men I saw when I was a kid, I am finding it can be hard to deal with all the constant change, most of which does not seem for the better. What’s annoying is that I am called to adapt to things I don’t necessarily want to adapt to.