Slow your roll

 

Getting old is weird. Avoid it. Whatever age you are now, just stay there.

Our little community is a 55+ community. It has multiple events during the month. I usually go when there is food involved. It wasn't planned, but I noticed I go when there is food.

We have breakfast every Saturday. Today there were about 10 of us at breakfast. 

There are usually at least two separate discussions taking place at a long table. Sometimes you want to be involved in more than one and that can be a problem. So you listen to one of the others with one ear and try to seem interested in whatever conversation you are supposed to be in with the other ear.

One of the discussions today was on committees. The manager of our facility said in our last community meeting that we needed more committees. I asked this morning how many do we have now. No one knew. They said there is a book. Look it up in the book. But "offhandedly" they didn't know.

(There is a book?)

(PS: regarding the word "offhandedly". I was sure that I'd invented a NEW really clever word, but it already exists. Bummer.)

One of the ladies said that she was asked to be Vice-President of a committee. She was asked by the President of said committee. She said she would under the condition that he (the President) not miss any meetings so that she would not have to preside.

He promptly died.

So that is the most weird thing about being old. People that you know are leaving... "Shuffling off this mortal coil". Sometimes you get to say goodby and sometimes you don't.

Or they get ill. In your mind they are catching a "double hitter" at the softball game and the next thing you know they are in a wheelchair with a dog in their lap looking happy. 

So again, repeating myself as old people often do... put the brakes on, slow your roll, tap the brakes or do whatever you can to stay whatever age you are now.

If you find that not possible then act whatever age that you wish you were.

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