I'm seeing things ... like letters, numbers, seed packet labels ... must be the new bifocals.Ugh! Bifocals! They're for old folks, not me! How could I be old enough? The optometrist had been warning me for years that I would need them eventually. Now they're perched on my nose, and gosh darn it, if I can't actually see the crossword puzzle!
Even though my daughters can both wear my shoes and look me in the eyes, and my husband's red beard is turning gray, I'm only fifteen, right? Or twenty-five? How old am I, really? It seems amazing to me that I've lived this long, and if life-span statistics are correct, I've still got miles to go before I sleep.
Satchel Paige famously said, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" In that case, I feel as though I'm every age I've ever been. Some days I'm exactly my age now -- 43. And in some ways I feel younger, more childlike. I think that's faith. Jesus did say that we need to come to him as little children. That's a mystery, and a little strange in a cynical world.
My forties have set me free. The things that used to matter are so small. I'm old enough to have perspective on my past, young enough to have time to follow my dreams (God willing), and I plan to never stop learning, as long as I can breathe.
Satchel Paige also said, "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Good words -- who wants to worry about age, anyway, or be defined by it? Focus on the future instead, because, as Satchel also said, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Marianne Peters is a professional writer, master gardener and green advocate living green and digging it.
My forties have set me free. The things that used to matter are so small. I'm old enough to have perspective on my past, young enough to have time to follow my dreams (God willing), and I plan to never stop learning, as long as I can breathe.
Satchel Paige also said, "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Good words -- who wants to worry about age, anyway, or be defined by it? Focus on the future instead, because, as Satchel also said, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Marianne Peters is a professional writer, master gardener and green advocate living green and digging it.In addition to writing for articles for the local Pilot News, Culver Citizen and Bremen Enquirer, she also writes for national publications. She offers professional writing and editing services through her business, Wordsmith Writing Services. Marianne finds inspiration and life lessons from planting seeds and pulling weeds from her garden. Learn more as she writes on this mantra in her motivational blog titled, Buzz Blog: Seeds and Weeds. She will share from the heart on her life lessons learned through gardening while offering tips to green thumb wannabees.
