I don’t mind growing older
On mornings when my hands are covered in garden soil
My feet wet with dew
And I’m laughing at the dogs
Chasing each other
I don’t mind getting older
On days when I’m busy
And have hardly checked the mirror
I’m not thinking of wrinkles
Or lines
Or grey hairs
I have no time for all that nonsense
I don’t mind getting older
On days when I’m writing
And the rain is drifting down
The tea in my mug is hot growing colder
As I lose myself in a plot
Of my own devising
It’s exciting
I don’t mind getting older
In the long stretch of summer evenings
When apricot turns into pink turns into indigo
And the crickets are so loud
I wonder what they are singing about
I don’t mind getting older
When I ride in the wind
The smells of the earth mixing intoxicating scents that play upon my senses
Where every heart beat feels God sent
And the bitumen hums with the sound of the wheels
Turning around and around
I don’t mind getting older
In fact I like it
The world is a far less aggressive place these days
I’ve found my peace
My solace
The emotions that come in waves
And leave again
I am not as caught up in them as I once was
There are tools and buffers, tricks of this human trade
I’ve learnt to use
When you realise how many troubles are actually self made
Delivered out of ones own brain
Which has an endless capacity for vexation
If allowed to persist
Or
We can simply exist
In this space between this breath and that
Sliding on a hat
Putting down the phone
And walking out the door
Into our lives
That are so much more
Then the devices and screens that surround us
“As I lose myself in a plot
Of my own devising”
Nice, Very nice. 🙂
Great thoughts. Thanks for sharing them.
Oh, you will. At a certain point getting older will mean your body saying, “if you think that was something, just wait.”
That’s what yoga is for Ray 🙂 keeps me flexible and healthy …..allow me the optimism of earlier times so I may look back and scoff at myself further down the road ….as I do now and then ..now.
I was a great athlete when I was your age. Things like osteoarthritis don’t care how flexible you where when younger. It attacks the parts of the muscular system that you used the most. If you’d like optimism, work not only on being flexible, but keeping the fluid in your knees, hips and spine, wet and thick as you can. There are all sorts of OTC meds that can help with that BEFORE problems start.
This is so emotional charged, I was along for the entire ride you had me hooked.
Thanks Lily 😘
Anytime
I loved this, time to share ❤️
Thankyou Rosie
Lovely! Wonderfully written!
The world is far less aggressive and many troubles are self made 🙂 So true, so very true. I’m reading Gabby Bernstein’s latest book, and brushing up on the truth’s that I believe and so easily forget in the daily grind. (Abraham Hicks, The Course in Miracles, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle) The truth is always there, just beneath the surface. It never stops whispering our names.
Funny you say that I read an Abraham Hicks quote yesterday about not focusing on what you don’t want because you are giving power to that and it hit me over the head – how do we forget this stuff yet we repeat – so frustrating.
Story of my life. Each time around the mountain I find the truth sinks in a bit deeper and I recover quicker than I did with the last brain fart lol 😉
Exactly!
Inspired and beautiful words – strangely I felt very old when I came out of my last job – but also found yoga which has probably made me feel fitter than I ever was, even when I was fit – and that wasn’t yesterday. The numbers are mounting up for me but my family tell me I can’t have the time to get old so will have to do that some time in the future. Kind of looking forward to it as, in theory, everything will be fixed, stable and good then.
I don’t mind growing older either…
😊 It’s a privilege denied to many