Today is my birthday \ud83d\ude42 Our family do not make a big deal about birthdays.<\/p>\n
I have a pessimistic view on aging. \u00a0I don’t want to get old and be a grouch and be slow and irrelevant, and complain about young people’s loud music, and complain about how my knees hurt, and I need help to go upstairs, and I can’t read the small print, and I can’t hear when people talk, and I have that old person smell like moth balls or Bengay, and I have to go to see the doctor every other week for some ailment or another, and I can’t sleep, and I see my friends dying off…that’s why I don’t want to get old. Pastor Jackson and I agree that we would be satisfied to live to 75 and not much more.<\/p>\n
I had a good day though – mommy and me fellowship, meet up with JF, ping pong hang out with young couples…note all these are with people younger than me…<\/p>\n
Yesterday, my friends took me out to lunch – my peers, not older than me…<\/p>\n
I know in theory that aging is not a bad thing. I need to pray and ask God to give me to really internalize that so I can have joy in aging.<\/p>\n
Hmmm, this is a rather depressing post on my birthday.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, I’m really happy with my life. I really am. I have a wonderful husband, my house is comfortable, my church is supportive and loving, my work is fulfilling, my health is decent, I have freedom to do things, and I am in the age of the internet with modern conveniences that make life easy, my kids are doing well. And most of all, I have a Savior who walks with me through it all and into eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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