Yes, I am now that person

It's official - I am now the older, jaded person I used to scoff at way back when. I don't know when exactly it happened, but I can tell you why (big guess!!!). So, I'm sitting at lunch at work the other day with a few of my younger co-workers and we are flipping through magazines. This one ad with these beautiful cascading wedding bands pops up and my 21 year old co-worker (the one with the brand new oops pregnancy, who also has an 8 month old - no I'm not possibly jealous) spews off her plans for a certain type of anniversary band for her 5 year anniversary, than another for 10 years. Before I can stop it, this pops out of my mouth "Be careful about planning everything out, cause life likes to throw lots of curve balls when you are least expecting it". She didn't even have a reaction, but I knew she was thinking wow, what a buzz kill. Exactly what I would have thought when I was her age. I couldn't imagine why someone could be so negative. Now I'm on the flip side. I am that older person who has shed their rose colored glasses. Who would've thunk it? Not me!! Can I go back to being naive again? Life was so simple then. I had so many big dreams and desires. I didn't have a clue that some of them couldn't possibly be fulfilled no matter how hard I tried. Man, I really miss those days.....