YOUNG OR OLD

Just around the period in early 80s when I was in my middle age and sincerely felt that I had not started showing signs of ageing,my son,who was then in his Teens made a relatively innocent remrk that brought me down to ground reality.

It was some time one evening in 1982/83,I remember,when both my son and myself were having a stroll in the corridors of CONNAUGHT PLACE in New Delhi,when some one around my age called me by my nick name and kept conversing for nearly 15 to 20 minutes or so.Quite needless to say that twas only after he departed and I reflected on all that he talked about that I realised that he was my classmate in my college days whom I was meeting for the first time after passing out of college in 1957 and so I wondered how he still remebered my face and my name.

When I proudly asked my son how is it that my friends are able to recognise me after so long and whether it means I am still as young as in my youth,my son promptly replied in all innocence ---"Don't have any such false ideas.Even in those days you
probably looked so old".What do I say to this? Am I young or I was old ?