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Aging - Even If Not Gracefully
I like getting older. It has set me free. I find that I don't give a second thought to things I used to get ulcers over. And I no longer have the time of day for people I used to waste time trying to please. More importantly, I like the person I have become.
I know I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not dwell on what could have been, or worry about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it), have a snifter of Gran Marnier even when there is no special occasion and tell every pretty woman I come across just how attractive she is - just because I probably should have told her the last time I saw her.
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, and my loving family for a head full of hair, grey or not, or an athletic physic. As I've aged, I've become kinder to others, less critical of myself and become my own best friend. I don't chide myself if I choose to read all morning, or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60s and sing along to my favorites from the 70's. And if I wish to weep over a lost love, a sad movie, a returning memory or a long-gone friend ... I will do so, thank you.
I have seen many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with ageing. I know they would understand when I decide to eat that extra cookie, or not make my bed, or buy silly stuff that I didn't need - just because I am entitled – entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. Whose business is it?
I feel blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turn grey (and then disappear), and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into grooves on my face. So many people I have known never laughed enough, and so many died before their hair could turn silver.
And someday I hope you will find that as you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think and you don't question yourself anymore.. Like me, you will have even earned the right to be wrong, and actually feel obligated to live life to the fullest.
Till Next Time. Pura Vida