The problem with getting older is not so much the outer appearance of wrinkles, gray hair, or anything cosmetic that comes with aging. It’s the nagging problems that never existed before.

Case in point: My shoulder.

I fell off my skateboarding about two weeks ago, and initially I did not feel anything. This was not the first time I fell off my skateboard, I have fallen off my skateboard thousands of times, and in more precarious situations than the one that landed me with this nagging shoulder problem.

Initially I thought it wasn’t my shoulder at all, I thought for sure it had something to do with my pillow, since the pain was traveling up to my neck.

I went out and bought a new pillow. My neck stopped hurting and it appeared that my shoulder was no longer nagging as much, then it came back! For whatever reasons my shoulder is still hurting, despite my neck not hurting, and I blame aging.

Ten years ago, I was fifteen years old, and I was jumping off sets of stairs, hand rails, jumping picnic tables, school benches and a plethora of other obstacles on my skateboard. In the interim I was also falling off my skateboard in mid air, and landing heavily on my shoulders, arms, back, and knees, with no problem.

Fast forward ten years later, a desk job and some uneven concrete and I’m nursing a shoulder injury for two weeks straight.

I hate aging.