Finally, after all the being sick I recently had, here comes my birthday! Don't ya just love reminders that you're getting old?! But mine wasn't too bad. Even though I'm apparently falling apart I still feel pretty good and I still feel like my youthful, lighthearted mental self. I guess some day, when I look in the mirror and go, "OMG!" and wonder who's looking back I'll know I'm old. But only by looking, not by feeling.
While the world revolves around youth and glorious skin and active impetuous lifestyles, I'm making do with lotioning up the dry legs and arms that now show the sun damage we were told to avoid in the 70s. I sit more often because I can't stand too long for the back issues and the titanium hips getting looser (good thing I like crocheting and reading). A treadmill is a permanent fixture in my home to inspire me to 'get up offa that thing' (or to catch dust).
I spent my birthday at my eye doctor office, so happy to finally be able to go get an updated prescription that my insurance would now approve (you know how you can only go but so often). What a let-down to be told a prescription wouldn't help. Instead, I need cataract surgery. Well, at least that explains why my sight has gotten so rough in the past 2 years.
Ah, the perks of aging.
But I'm glad I'm where I am, after having all the good and bad and exciting and boring life experiences I've had thus far. I think I am a stronger, more confident person than I was in my youth. Some things that seemed so very important at one time (important enough to argue over) now don't mean much at all and wouldn't if the same scenario occurred today. I guess everyone looks back and wonders what were they thinking back then. But I feel solid in myself. Does that make sense?
I guess it could get sad to think you don't have but x number of years left. When we're young that's not even on the radar. But I'm glad that, now that I'm older and have had time to ponder such things, I know that if today was my last, I have another life ahead of me even better than this one, one in Heaven. because of my faith in Jesus. That makes today and tomorrow, and this year and all the rest just stepping stones.
I'm looking forward to enjoying my 63rd stepping stone year and seeing what it brings!
