As you get older...

[snuffer]

So, this weekend at Centre Parcs I'm going to go abseiling just to regain some youth that I appear to have dropped somewhere on my travels through life.

Your not round our way again are you? (Centre Parcs near Sherwood Forest).

Look out for the snow at the entrance. Looks quite realistic.

[HeyWayne]

Your not round our way again are you? (Centre Parcs near Sherwood Forest).

Look out for the snow at the entrance. Looks quite realistic.

Yip indeed we are.

It's getting to the point where the ladies at the entrance are addressing us by first names...

Didn't spot you last time though.

[Flummery]

A comfy chair, my chickens to watch and of course, endless Vine-time!

[rustylady]

what do you appreciate more?
I appreciate "me time", and time just to sit and do nothing.
What about you?

How old do you have to be to get that? I'm 60 in March next year, and still don't get much of it. Apart from my time on the Vine.

[Brengirl]

I have to disagree with you on this one, zazen (unprecedented!)
My biggest problem is that I faff too much - always have. In fact, my biggest saying is "If I ever got organised, I'd be dangerous!"

The worst thing about me is that someone gave me ideas beneath my station, to quote the great Terry Pratchett.

Agree with you there Jeanied. But, I am yonks ahead of you and am still 'driven'. I drive my OH mad with plans for the future. If I am not planning I am asleep and more often than not I plan then also. I drink 'the vino' a lot in order to be able to switch off but does it hell. It inspires yet another notch.

[dexterdoglancashire]

I appreciate "me time", and time just to sit and do nothing.

As I typed this in I thought, not long till they put me in a home - erm, Im only 47! LOL!

[Two_Sheds]

what do you appreciate more?
I appreciate "me time", and time just to sit and do nothing.

I can't sit and do nothing, it's not in my nature. I wish it was.

As I get older, I realise I can't please everyone all the time, so why should I even try? It just leads to disappointment.
It's not as if anyone is always trying to please me !

[Sprocket*]

For me it is the realisation that I am me and don't have to apologise for this. For years I was bullied at school and was made to feel like the most ugly person that ever walked the earth. Its now that i am approaching the grand old age of 32 that I can hold my head up and say "I am me! Accept it or get lost".

Now that I am old I can't bear crowds - went to the Good Food Show and couldn't bear the crowds. I have to confess that I did kick some womens trolley after falling over it for the 5th time (not as hard as i wanted to). I know I am bad!

[Scottishnewbie]

what do I appreciate most.....? Hmm, this is a great question to really get your brain cells working! First of all I came up with all the usual stuff (family growing up, etc, etc, etc) but then I sat quietly (unusual) for a few moments and realised that it is being loved and accepted.....

I dont think I actually felt either when i was younger (even though i was) but now because i have allowed myself to, i can be ME! and being ME let's me be a little bit selfish and do things that are important to me; like growing my veg, making my preserves, riding my horses....all without guilt!

and in a strange way everyone around me seems a bit happier too! how strange....

i was diagnosed with 'superficial basal cell cancer' this afternoon and am to have some kind of chemotherapy treatment for the next 6 weeks and yet, i feel fine about it all. looked it up on the hinternet and it is unlikely to kill me apparently, so i just went out and visited my pal for a coffee and a blether.....not so long ago i would have a nervous breakdown at the very mention of the "C" word....

[Brengirl]

For me it is the realisation that I am me and don't have to apologise for this. For years I was bullied at school and was made to feel like the most ugly person that ever walked the earth. Its now that i am approaching the grand old age of 32 that I can hold my head up and say "I am me! Accept it or get lost".

Now that I am old I can't bear crowds - went to the Good Food Show and couldn't bear the crowds. I have to confess that I did kick some womens trolley after falling over it for the 5th time (not as hard as i wanted to). I know I am bad!

Karen, I do not believe that at the ripe old age of 32 you are resigned to be anything. Get off your backside and go get!!

[janeyo]

I appreciate QUIET when the children are in bed. Somtimes OH and me just sit there in the near dark and I will say ' can you hear that?' and he says 'hear what?' and I say 'exactly.....'
lol.

I love them dearly but am getting too old to stand the noise!

[Jeanied]

i was diagnosed with 'superficial basal cell cancer' this afternoon and am to have some kind of chemotherapy treatment for the next 6 weeks and yet, i feel fine about it all. looked it up on the hinternet and it is unlikely to kill me apparently, so i just went out and visited my pal for a coffee and a blether.....not so long ago i would have a nervous breakdown at the very mention of the "C" word....

Well done you Scottishnewbie - just keep it positive and all will be well! You have a very good prognosis - so you just gotta keep going! It is all worth it in the end.

[annacruachan]

I really appreciate the quiet peacefulness of our small island (was the world always such a noisy place?) - reading and snoozing in the afternoon without feeling guilty about it - not being expected to be doing something all the time, and not expecting it of myself.
I recently found this poem:

I am no longer eager, bold and strong.
All that is past:
I am ready not to do
At last, at last,
My half day's work is done
And this is all my part,
I give a patient God
My patient heart.

I think it will be a good few years before this really applies to me, but even now I recognise the feeling!

[zebedee]

I really appreciate using my bus pass! I got to 40 = disaster, I really went into a decline! 50 = not a lot better! 60 = I couldn't wait. Kids have all left home so it's just my wife and myself - great! The only trouble is, it now takes me all night to do what I used to do all night!

[piskieinboots]

I like the fact that I am comfortable being me - rather than always wishing I was someone else, as I did in my earlier years.

I don't worry (overly) what people think of me, having said that I do like to be liked but I don't think I'm unusual in that.