Dear Bono,
I was talking with my medical students today, and it turns out I am old. I don't know when it happened. I guess I've known that it's been a while since I've been "young." I keep thinking I am perpetually 17, but when I see 17 year olds, I realize that I am not. And when I hear them speak, I realize I am definitely not.
The grey hair that started in 2009 should have been a clue. There was one during my intern year. It stayed as one for months. That one grey hair, proving that I had been working hard, living through sleepless nights while my patients' lives held in the balance. By the end of my intern year, that one hair turned into three. Panic struck. WHY? My father was 40 before he started greying, while my mother did not start until her 60s. Perhaps I was working too hard? No matter. Until last year, while working my most challenging schedule yet I had 19 grey hairs. Time to give up.
I realized I was aging. I didn't realize I had aged. Until today. Today, I knew. Today, when I was talking to my medical students, telling them about my TV shows I loved as a child: He-Man, She-Ra, Jem. And they had no idea what I was talking about. None. Blank look. Even the pictures I pulled up online did not help. This was truly before their time.
Bono, does this ever happen to you? And in another vein, did you ever feel pressure from Jem and the Holograms? I realize that Jem's target demographic may have skewed slightly younger than yours, but the young girls LOVED Jem. Did you think about this while in the studio recording "The Joshua Tree?" Didn't you realize that your dark lyrics to "Exit" had no power to counteract the neon clothing?
Just wondering.
Sincerely,
JP
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