Getting Old

Ever wonder what it is like getting old and feeling blue some days as you reflect your life and view your thoughts within a split moment of nostalgia? Maybe not all the time but certainly a good portion of your time is reflection of good and bad memories hidden deeply within the annals of your mind. The fact is, you can’t help yourself thinking about yesterday as much as you want to try to focus on tomorrow. You concentrate on the present as you begin to doubt about the future.

Getting old means a change in lifestyle habits and common sense priorities that were once on top of your daily agenda and now perhaps a bit lower down the list if not completely stricken off it. Lifestyles that included physical activities such as jogging around the track or volleyball on the beach, swimming in the lake or ocean and hiking or mountain climbing with those people that always brought the competitive spirit within you to be the first in the race.

Those days of running and jumping are gone forever as you sometimes struggle with your balance getting up out of bed or even the car whenever you are tired. Rubbing your eyes free of the sleep that accumulated as you are sleeping more now than ever before and watch what you eat as the digestive system is more sensitive now than ever before. Muscle tone and super strengths are things of yesterday and will now require you to exercise in a more sensible manner.

Your list of medication includes aspirin or some other kind of prescription to deal with the aches and pain that have appeared as a gentle reminder of your youthful past and the sports you played a tumbles you took. A headache could be a warning and an upset stomach can let you down for the rest of the day as you adjust your life to meet the daily challenge of staying alert and aware of your environment.

Getting old means having more tolerance to people’s voices and their noises. Sometime struggling to hear what they are saying, you also must admit that those ears aren’t working as well as they did before. Noises can be annoying and crowds are sometimes not tolerated as you become a little more recluse than ever before.

Your social life is stale compared to before and although you seek to go out and find a good movie theater every now and then you have adjusted to watch those nostalgic channels of TV land and the AMC channel as you watch your memories on the screen letting you drift away and remember what you were doing those days when you were young.

Mind you now, I am not complaining. As a youth I never realized that growing old could be such a wonderful experience as life gives you satisfaction of all your fruits of labors and family events. There are no better moments that those in your mind as you travel your personal journey over and over again to keep your focus on who you love and who loves you.

This time of growing old is precious yet unforgiving. There are no comforts in sight that will assure you that there will be no more tomorrows. Living the moment every day and every minute has become a treasure. A treasure stored within your heart and someday will be found and unlocked with the key that is in your heart’s control until the day you leave this Earth and go to Heaven.

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