The older we get, the fewer things seem worth
waiting in line for.
Some people try to turn back
their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way.
I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't
paved.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to
go back to your youth ... remember Algebra.
I don't know how I got over
the hill without getting to the top.
Ah,
being young is beautiful, but being old is
comfortable.
h/t MO Bro
10 comments:
If I had known getting old was like this, I would have put it off for a few years.
WSF, I'm right there with you. Where do we file for the extension?
Heh. The waiting in line thing really hits hoe for me.
I usually have no issue with wanting to turn back the clock. Except when I visit some of those Rule 5 sites :)
Preppy, the 'waiting in line' thing got my attention, too. One observation: you know you're getting older when you see a really pretty young woman & think, "I've got a daughter her age." :)
Life is always hurried when we're young. As we get older, we become wiser, more patient, and have no real need to stand on lines.
Yes, Sandy, there's that too. :)
OK. All true . . . I wouldn't go back to that young brain and mind of my youth . . . .
But . .
In my spring-cleaning frenzy . . I've been sorting through decades of photographs . .
They're strewn all over tables in my living room. I've had THREE friends look at them and go "That's you, Cathy!!??" Wow. You were pretty!"
Ouch. Yeah, yeah . . that "unpaved road" business :)
They said that? Ouch.
Well . . . now remember . . . we're talking a 40+ year spread . . .
And - ok - the emphasis on "were" is mine. It's just that we reeeeally don't need reminding that youth fled with time.
Now I apologize for the rambling, but here's a quote from Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" . . . I read it when I was young . . . and now I really 'get it'.
"When you meet a dragon that has eaten a swan, do you guess by the few feathers left around the mouth? That's what it is.......a body like this is a dragon, all scales and folds. So the dragon ate the white swan . . ."
Cathy, understood. And good quote!
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