Category: Elder Folk
Can't resist asking that. Are you proud of where you are now, or do you wish you were younger. If I could travel back, I'd love to be back in the seventies. Still, the world is a wonderous place, and the wisdom I've gained through experience has made my life full. How about you?
I'd go back in a heartbeat to 1958 and I'd go ahead and kiss little Suzy Rogers like she wanted me to.
Well, considering the alternative, Yeah.
Seriously, I'm glad to be getting older. Oh sure, the body doesn't react to things the way it did, and it takes me longer to learn new things, but the longer I live, the more I can learn and experience. I'd like to think I have more time to make a difference to someone on this planet we call home as well.
Lou
Well, I'm a realist, so getting older is just something that happens, and how I feel about it will not change it. I'm pretty relaxed about it, really. Sure I have my regrets, but everybody does, but you can't go back and have a do-over. A lot of this anxiety over getting older is made up by society anyhow, so why buy into it?
well godzilla-on-toast, there are consequences of getting older, you start getting things, though fortunately, I don't have any aches and pains, I've only had the sllight aches and pains that came from my surgery, but don't have that now, but i haven't had any age pains yet. I'm glad in a way, because there isn't a way you can stay young and stay alive. yes, age is just something that happens, but I try not to think about the things that happen to you as a result of again, because if i thought too much about how i might be slowing up or down, and my mind not being as fast and limber as it was when i was younger, it would make me depressed. If we could just get older without ever deteriorating, either physically or mentally, growing older wouldn't be bad at all. I sometimes wish, instead of steadily declining, we could remain as young and vibrant as we always have, until it was our time to go, then just zap, have it happen all at once after having lived maybe 100 or 120 years or so. sounds silly and impractical, but i have had thoughts like that, but i just have to accept that it just doesn't work that way.
wonderwoman
Well, I believe we all agree. Aging is part of life. I don't think I could live through being young again, though I would love to go back to the seventies. But, since I can't, then I'll be happy in the time I have left. Like godzilla said he's a realist, and so am I. I agree with you wonder. Bob, kissing Susie might not be what you think it might be. lol. That girl might have broken your heart. lol. Besides, if I was eighteen again I wouldn't have my boys.
Definately not the rapidity of age scares me and I'm not ready to capitulate to the bugger.
Well, I just lost my train of thought. Had a senior moment. (laughing my head off). Oh yes, Goblin, I agree with you. I want to live every day with all the gusto I can. Sure, life is sometimes hard, but it's still good.