by finne

Created on: May 29, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

What It's like being 60

Most people in living and loving life,never give the future a thought.
Some realize at sixty they have grown a little bit in knowledge. When you are sixty It's almost as having a prepaid ticket to a good drama theater. For they see drama's surrounding them everyday. And for certainty they realize the drama's don't cease. Most people start to realize that allot of their friends are dying. Family members get busy doing their thing and you see them less and less. The work opportunities aren't no longer there. What use to be a routine check into the doctors office once a year. Now is every two to three months. When you are young you are in a hurried for everything, you don't have time to hang on to all the dramas. And you are quicker at everything. When you are sixty you get slower and overwhelmed with everything. You are so overwhelmed you start forgetting where you put your car keys, your coffee cup, your important papers, and so on. And let's not forget the change in our eyes. We have to get glasses or contact lenses. And often we think we are going to loose our glasses. Because we keep taking them off and on. And they aren't cheap. We also find ourselves going more regularly to the dentist. Being sixty sometimes have it's advantages too

like never having to take a driving test. Or paying half fare. Also getting senior discounts
You know the stumbling blocks on the road. Because you been there yourself. But who would listen. Though your hair is grayish white you still dress up nice. You try to have fun be friendly and cordial with everyone. But sometimes there is that one person you have to watch out for. The thief that wants to run away with your money, not knowing you're in better shape than him. And you been waiting for the opportunity to prove yourself. How about the guy that comes in the middle of the night to steal your car cause he knows you are old. But doesn't know you been practicing boxing. You plan your everyday life as you've never done before. All of a sudden you become health conscious. You put yourself on reverse to undue the damages you cause your body. In order to have a few more years of life. Then one day you have this yearning for politics. Want to tell America give your riches to the poor without any strings attach. Because you know America have so much. In your years you've come to realize that countries don't want our help because they don't want to give something in return. Then another day you realize this would fall on deaf ears. But if the truth be told at age sixty your heart aches for love and passion as it always did. For inside of you there's a heart that doesn't see you've grown old. And so you move on toward tomorrow no matter what it brings though at times you will know sorrow your heart within you sings knowing through every day Jesus will hold your hand.

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