Friday, October 9, 2009

SIXTY

In less than a month, that's what I'll be......60....

Sixty

SIXTY

6 DECADES.....

Three fifths of a CENTURY.....

No matter how you look at it, it's old....Well, maybe not compared to 90, or 85, or 76, or 64, but still, 60 feels old. It feels like, if I died, no one would think how tragic that is, that I died too young. Everyone, including me, would say, "She had a good life, a great life, she died a happy woman." They wouldn't say, "Oh, how sad.....she died too young."

Sixty (60) IS old. And anything beyond that is icing on the cake......

So now the trick is to get past feeling old and figure out how to stay young.....young at heart anyway. And I think I know how to do that, it's just a matter of mentally getting past the 'old' feelings---those physical aches and pains that seem to have crept into daily living, those scared feelings of being 'at the end', and the fleeting but pervasive thoughts that I've already lived the best part(s) of my life and now it's downhill from here.

It's time to put all that into perspective with grace and gratitude, and move forward, with wings on my feet and a song in my heart.....and I know it's in me to do just that.....and I will, maybe even before I actually turn 60!

But, for right now, I'm only 59 and 11/12---so if I curl up on my favorite chair with Daisy, my favorite Beagle, and take a little afternoon siesta, it ISN'T because I'm old.

I'm just resting........and savoring these days before I can no longer deny that I'm SIXTY. :)