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And then it happened! All of a sudden, like I said, I woke up and all that had changed. It seemed like most people were younger than I. I couldn't physically do most of the things I had been doing...I can't work even part-time, I can't keep my home clean, cooking every night is a struggle and getting ready to go anywhere drains me. What is going on? I looked in the mirror and no longer saw a young woman but a middle age one. I don't remember it happening gradually...it just happened and I don't like it one bit.
I don't mind growing older...I do mind growing old! I can't play hop scotch, I can't skip, I can't do jumping jacks...when I run, I look like a hippopotamus...it ain't a pretty sight!
It's inevitable...it will happen to most of us. But why so quickly? Why so unkindly? I wish I had known this many years ago. I would have prepared myself better.
It is so sad to me the way society views and treats the elderly. Now I am not considered elderly, although I often feel like I am. It seems as if we, in the United States, discard our elderly. Put them in the nursing home, out of sight...out of mind.
- Mood:
sad
So there is a new year ahead...new blessings...new struggles...new adventures. No matter what lies ahead in 2008, may God be glorified in all I do and say.
I joined a group from Etsy for weight loss. It is a 10 week plan. Today is day 2 and I am doing OK. I started walking on my treadmill today. I had the treadmill set at 2 mph and I walked for 20 minutes twice. It is just a start. The old saying goes, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." "Today is the first day of the rest of my life eating and living well."
- Mood: lonely
