Aging Support Group

When I look in the mirror or think about being 52 I wonder where the time went. I wonder how much time I've squandered.

Post edited by: sprogress, at: 09/27/2009 06:57 AM

HI sprogress, and welcome to the aging site. Actually everyone needs to post here because we are all in the same boat-aging.

If your saying did you waste time in your youth, I think all of us did. I had that mirror experience and suddenly we find ourselves on the verge of being the oldest generation in our family. It is a good time to ponder about remaining goals, new ones, finishing old ones, and thinking about priorities.

I am 65, volunteer, help in my daughter's house, babysit for my grandaughter's baby, raise birds that need cleaning and feeding daily, and I feel like I am squandering time. Shouldn't I be working and bringing in as much money as possible? Sometimes, I make a list of what I want to do with My Life. What have I not done yet that I hadn't time for, due to working and raising kids.

Society and family expectations really need to be looked at as to how they influence us right where we are now.

What do you think?

I forgot to mention, I have an older sister who doesn't look in the mirror anymore!

Post edited by: Nevayda, at: 09/27/2009 09:03 AM

How is everyone? I'm fine.

have a great day

sprogress

Hi sprogress, how's it going? Did I mention that I was on hormone therapy at your age? It was the best thing at the time. I really felt sooooo old. Menapause stuff, I guess. Anyway it corrected my mood and since I had a youngster, I was able to keep up. Whats going on in your corner of the world?I

Boy, do I identify with that statement except I am 67, feel 40, going on 100.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was much younger but my body reminds me how old I am.

Have you noticed how fast the years go by now? I cannot believe it will soon be 2010!!

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin

I look back and see the mistakes and choices I made and wonder where I would be if I had made different choices. I know I cannot go back and change anything and I don't dwell on the past. I am a firm believer in living one day at a time and the Serenity Prayer. Here are several versions:

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

As it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

If I surrender to His Will;

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with Him

Forever and ever in the next.

William Spence

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God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,

the good fortune to run into the ones I do,

and the eyesight to tell the difference.

- author unknown

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God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change

courage to change the one I can change,

and wisdom to know it’s me.

–author unknown

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For every ailment under the sun

There is a remedy, or there is none;

If there be one, try to find it;

If there be none, never mind it.

W.W. Bartley

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