A good friend sent me a piece about living in the Winter of your life, with all the regrets when looking back over your life about all the things you should have done but didn't. Then it goes on to give advice to the younger folks about how to lead their life. One of the most interesting parts of the essay discusses about the process of getting old. It appears to the writer that getting to the winter of life seemed to come quickly and caught him by surprise. I was reminded of a friend at work when overhearing a conversation about College costs for the 18 year old, "haven't they had 18 years to get ready?"
You don't get old quickly. It happens one day at a time. And we are in the Autumn of our life. The Winter is when we can no longer move around the world. There are pluses and minuses about being old, the same as being young. The choice is always to ignore the deficiencies and accentuate the positive attributes. It is the same as when you are young. It certainly is nothing to be sad about. We did everything we could possible do to make our living and to make a life and for that we are grateful. Ken can no longer leap across a creek but I could never do it anyway so he has gotten over it. We both can read and write and walk and eat and for that we are pleased. And we pay no attention to what we can not do. It is the Autumn of our lives, not Winter. That is my story and I will stick to it!!
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