AS I’VE AGED I’VE BECOME KINDER TO MYSELF
As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend.
I have seen too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it, if I choose to read, or play, on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70’s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will.
I will walk the beach, in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves, with abandon, if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.
They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, I eventually remember the important things
Sure, over the years, my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break, when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But, broken hearts are what give us strength, and understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken, is pristine, and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don’t question myself anymore. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).
MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!
Well said, Foreveryoung2. The world is obsessed with youthfulness!!
Beautiful and truthful thoughts. Freedom…the divine key to embrace this stage of our lives as every page of it, definitely has it’s own beauty. Very well expressed!!!!
Lovely blog forever xxxx
I felt as if you had been reading over my shoulder, we definitely need to be kinder to ourselves. I do not envy the young this world, they are the ones who are concerned by those issues I play no part in.
I am happy too, just to be me. No oil painting, my life is written in my face and my children evidence by my figure, would I wish a more pert figure or a single stretch mark gone? Never.
Yes we have lost loved ones, and made mistakes in who we trusted, but that is how our journey has been told. Each milestone at testament to how we have lived.
I will join you on that beach, and we will go for cream cakes on our way home.
I’m with you elvera – love cream cakes lol xoxox
Oh forever beautiful love the way you portray our lives…..yes i am glasd i am in the place i am……its where i am suposed to be ….cant always be wonderful but its my life and i am living it ……..thanks mac
Beautiful blog …just Beautiful…Thank you!
Wonderful, forever. Thoroughly enjoyed this…beautifully written. xxx
Oh forever, for a long time I have known what a lovely person you are and you have just proved it once again. Thank you….love Annie xx
I do hope you included Dire Straits in your musical repertoire. “Money for nothing and your kicks for free!!!!”
You read my mind foreveryoung. Very well put.