Day 444 - 'one' cool chick



On the way to the play...
the buddy holly story.

 woohoo! Yep that's what I am, one cool chick.  Bet you never thought you'd see an old lady being a cool chicky eh?  But of course you know what I am referring to right?  My temperature.  The fever seems to have left the premises, my premises that is.  This was similar to my last round of fever.  No explanation just a high fever for a few days and then it just gradually goes away.

Hubby and I went to a play last night, it was the Buddy Holly Story...
  The audience was definitely of the silver haired variety but its great because as you get older you care less about what people think of you.  By the end of the evening we were all dancing and singing our hearts out.  It's been a long time since Ray and I went out like that, he found tickets in his pocket that had the dated back to 2008.  3 years? Much too long!

It's funny how we think there will always be another time, another day, or another moment where you can do something.  Tick Tock Tick Tock.  We need to keep those things balanced in that some of them we do right away and some of them we have to be patient for and wait and wait and wait.  And while we are waiting sometimes we realize that this thing we wanted so badly isn't really that important at all.  Nope, what we thought was at the top of the list after some time completely falls off the list.

My hubby and I have been married 35 years now.  We both thought we were so grown up when we got married.  Well we thought so anyways.  Through 35 years we have both changed in many ways.  One thing that is consistent in life is change. There will always be change, always.  Through lots of hard work, communication, a little yelling once and awhile, melt downs and time we've managed to make it through.  Compromising has been a big one as well.  We all need to compromise.  It makes me so sad to see as people get older they get more stuck in their ways than ever before, they become angry and frustrated.  As we get older its time to start relaxing...we don't have to worry about getting enough groceries to feed the whole crew, our debt is usually less than it was when we were in our 30's and now we get to spend time and energy on ourselves. 

So why are people getting so angry as they get older? Perhaps life didn't turn out like they had planned.  Or maybe their lives are still too busy to enjoy the stage in life where you can relax and not worry about things so much.  Or perhaps as we get older we can no longer hide our frustrations or anger and it just pours out of us when we have a good listener. 

Now is not the time to be angry.  It's the time to enjoy the fruits of years and years of your hard work.  The time to sit and relax and absorb all the beauty that surrounds us.  It's time to let go of all that anger and shock the beep out of the world and learn to appreciate the hard work that others do as well.  I could go on and on.  But does anger really get us anywhere?

signed 'one' finally cool purple ladybug