Aging

Aging is like adolescence. We are always changing and very, very different externally from one time to the next. Do we indeed go back in time as we age??

Probably not, but it seems familiar to me. As I age, I am changing in body and mind and even spirit. So it was with adolescence. I neverliked to think of old age as a "second childhood", but now when I really think about it, childhood was pretty cool, so why not old age too? Childhood was staying in the now, being always open to the new and different, happy and joyful each day, exploring, learning, so many things.

Is old age like that? I wonder. I think I will be in the now especially if my mind stays alert and unworried. If so, I believe it is possible. I see myself worrying less and less about "what people think" as I age and I gelieve eventually I will be more and more in the now with each moment.

I think it is more important to look foward to old age than it is to dread it. My body ages and I find more and more things to do to help manuever it through those changes. Time will tell.