COMING OF AGE AT A RIPE OLD AGE

I read Kindness Matters last entry and it started me thinking!!!! I always say that for the first forty years of my life at least I was living in a fog – in a world of my own. What I mean is that I did what was expected by society and my family especially my mother and husband. I don’t think I ever had a thought of my own. When I had to follow a recipe I needed the EXACT ingredients. This was my recipe for the other parts of my life also. ONE DAY I GREW UP or I guess it happened gradually. I learned that there are many ways to skin a cat and I DID not have to follow anyone else’s rules. I could develop my own and they would be just as good if not better. I learned to be independent and to think for myself. I no longer worried what the OTHERS thought. I didn’t care. Let them worry about what I thought for a change. Who are THEY anyways??? I remember in high school wondering what the other girls were wearing. I would call to check it out. Once I got older I stopped.
I feel that at my age I have a lot of wisdom to share even though noone wants to hear. Their loss! I have learned a lot in my 68 years and most of it has to do with the idea that little is of any real significance. For me anyways! For example who cares if your shoes match your dress which matches your socks? Who cares if your bed is made everyday? Are the bed patrols coming around and even if they do so what? There are so many more important things to do. 
I have also learned that we have to have respect for ourselves. If we don’t no one else will. We are IMPORTANT – as important as anyone else and should be treated as such.
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Anyhow I am babysitting at my son’s and this kitchen chair and table are NOT comfortable so I am going to bed even though it is very early. I have to get the kids off to school in the morning and I am sure they will be up by six so off I go.

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