Elton John once said: “If you let things happen, that's a magical life.”
I think for myself, my siblings, my family, and
friends we have had a magical life. Now I cannot speak for sure about my
siblings and friends but I believe that they have had magical lives. Some of
my friends were planners and made plans, stuck to them, and achieved their
goals. I never did. For the most part, I let life happen and just followed my
nose from one day to the next, one month and one year to the next. When the
universe presented me with a great project or an idea, and I took it on, I did
then plan and focus on the goals I needed to complete the project or bring the
idea alive. When it was done, I never knew what was around the corner, but I was
always ready to embrace it if it was fun and challenging. What about you?
I know I am lucky because as I age, I do not have too
many serious diseases, I have a retirement income which I saved for but I know
people who do not. I also know people that have serious diseases and they are
reduced to a daily life that is made up of the essentials: rest, meals,
medications with the remaining time devoted to one's individual kinds of pleasures
of old age. I was captured by the phrase the individual pleasures of old age. What
are they for others?
For me it is meeting with my friends, talking to my brother
on the phone, helping my wife when I can, spending all the time I want online writing.
Enjoying a homemade cookie or dessert. Going to bed and waking up without an
alarm clock.
What are your pleasures of old age?
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