Think About It

Several years ago I was told that growing older wasn’t for the faint of heart.  I think I (kind of) understood it back then, but the older I get the more real it becomes for me.  It seems like each day I have something hurting.  I am finding some of the things that I used to be able to do with ease take more time and effort.  Now that I am one, I am beginning to be a lot less critical of older people.  Now, while this is one of those life lessons, here is another one – so what?  We have a choice, we can either power through the struggles or we can give up and become irrelevant.  We can either play with pain or sit on the sidelines.   The reason that I bring this up isn’t to prepare people for their so-called “Golden Years”, rather it is to challenge us at all ages to keep going even when it hurts.  The pain may be physical or emotional, but if we are going to be viable tomorrow we need to be willing to play with the pain.  We can’t ...