“It is not often that anyone can have so much knowledge of another as is necessary to make instruction useful.” Samuel Johnson
As I get older, I get questions on how life works. I’ve given up trying to give people specific advice since I know today’s world bears little resemblance to my world at their age. It’s so much easier (and less responsibility) to just share my experience, my consequences when I made bad choices, my lessons learned. Anything beyond that is insulting at best, and borderline meddling at worst. Recently I was asked how I got promoted at work. I had no idea about the policies and culture at her job, so anything based on my career path would likely sound like a party-line by comparison. So I merely said, “I did the very best job in my current position.”
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“One of the things that frustrates me about modeling is that you’re judged solely on how you look. When you get older, you’re judged more on the person you are, and that’s a great reward…I view aging as a blessing.” Kathy IrelandMy husband and I were laughing at ourselves. We’d get out of bed and for the first few minutes we’d walk slowly until we adjusted our stiff and sore joints. For me it was my lower back and a recent injury to my left hip and knee that’s taking a while to mend. Saturday I was relaying this conversation to a friend and we laughed at the fact that younger people are so concerned with gray hair and wrinkles. In our diatribe we discussed the freedom from hair color and face-lifts was a gift of those who have aged to the point where health has supplanted appearance as a more important measure of aging. We had to laugh at ourselves, too, because we each genuinely had to admit we’d wasted some of our youth and part of our health to learn this lesson.
Finally, we agreed with the all-too-familiar maxim: “Growing old is not for sissies.” Are you more concerned about your outside appearance? Have you invested in visual improvements while procrastinating on priorities that help retain physical and mental vigor? What will you do today to promote quality of life versus merely appearance of youth? Lord, thank You for allowing me to laugh at myself, but more importantly to recognize the importance of health—while I still have my health—on retaining a vital, fun, and useful life as I age. Amen “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.” II Corinthians 4:16 “The glory of the young is their strength, but the splendor of the old is their gray hair.” Proverbs 20:29 What are your thoughts? Libby
Note: Marguerite, Comtesse of Blessington (1789-1849), an Irish novelist, journalist and literary hostess, known for writing a book about her conversations with Lord Byron; in addition to writing other novels and articles her home was distinguished as a meeting place for notable literary, education, art, science and fashion personalities of the day; it was at her home that Hans Christian Andersen first met Charles Dickens.
“I don’t need therapy; I just need to go camping.” UnknownI planned a camping trip for my husband’s birthday so he could go fishing, one of his favorite things to do for R&R. This first morning camping in our new trailer, Wayne was out fishing before six am. I slept until seven. I dressed to walk the dog and returned with visions of doing a quiet time with my coffee in the great outdoors.
I started a fire. I used to love to watch logs burn. It took the chill off the early morning hours in the hills. Then I took Abbey on a long walk, her favorite thing to do, especially with all the new smells. Fortunately I had two doggie bags in my pocket. One I used to pick up bottle tops and other small litter, the sight of which disappoints me. But now—not in a rush to be somewhere—I could do something about it.
Wayne is now reading (or napping) in his new hammock and I’m comfortably settled with my laptop...both of us doing something enjoyable on our ‘therapy’ camping trip.
“A joyful heart makes a cheerful face…A cheerful heart is good medicine...” Proverbs 15:13, 17:22 What are your thoughts? Libby |
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