"The Older You Get, The Wiser You Are"....I Saw Something Like This On AOL Today...I Am Far Older Than What They Refer To, But Also Far Wiser....

Please bear with me on this blog...We are not home and I am using a laptop...My problem being is that I am not used to laptops...I usually type around 80 wpm. and with using this new implement to write my thought on life, I feel lost...My pink paper is no longer in front of me on my large TV sized screen...The typeset doesn't look the same....The heading is different....But, seeing I have just named this subject what I have I feel it is time for me to adapt....So I will....

Now to it...I just about erased everything that I had written....... Concentrate girl, concentrated...I saw the words that I sprawled across the Topic of this blog written on AOL today...Needless to say, being older this intrigued me...However, I am not being truthful about the older part, I am ancient...I guess this is what they call 73 years old...My grandchildren would just roll their eyes in acceptance as to them I am as old as you can get without passing on...But, it was what they said that interested me...They find in findings that people in later years, 50's, seem to be more aware of life...Their understanding has not slowed down...If anything I think they were all surprised....Now let's talk about me...

They said that the older people may now be using both sides of their brain whereas when they are young they do not do that....Well I figured I started doing that about 7 years ago and now am in full swing...Words I never knew I now know...Along with this has come the confidence of a lifetime...However, I also have paid my price for my sins...That being the non-acceptance of youth...The ones that are sure that I am one of the over the hill gang...You know, have no knowledge of life and treat you will dung...Believe me I have had my share of these and have paid my price for fame...I am now Moderating at the most wonderful Forum in the world...It is called ehealth...They accepted me and gave me time to gain confidence in myself and let it all hang out...They allowed me to walk away for a while and contemplate life...Decide if I had the balls to go forward and in plain words "waited for me to grow up"....I feel that at this age in life that despite the fact that my body parts may be wearing out, that I am both sexually and in awareness of life and what it holds for me and I for it, at the top of my game...A lot of this I credit to ehealth....The rest of it I credit to my God....Now for my eyes....

In the last seven years not only has my mind grown and my thinking never stopped, but my eyes have changed.....When I speak of my mind the best way to put it is that it is as if I have things lined up to think of next...I am more alert than I have ever been, yet my aches and pains are there from a lifetime...Too much golfing and sports have taken their toll...Recently I went to the Optometrist... This was simply for new glasses as I had not had my eyes checked for about five years...They didn't bother me, but I knew my physician was going to ask about it when I had my physical...The girl went through the various books of objects before the doctor came in...He is a cool man that I have known for years...Watched his children grow as I have aged...He examined me and often smiled at what he was finding...To me it went quick...Just pick this one out and name it...Like kindergarten..I sailed through it just as I now sail through so many things in life...Afterward he stood in front of me and grinned...It was like he was thrilled....He said that years ago I had started to develop cataracts....They had now shrunk and were no longer a problem...He said my eyes which were so bad had changed....That my glasses would now hardly have any added help to them...Sorry, but I don't know the word for this...That for some reason my eyes are improving and he was like in amazement...That I no longer hardly needed them...

I have known that this was happening...It was as if everything had changed...So often I would forget to put my glasses on...I wasn't being forgetful, but I just plain didn't need them...I could now see close and far away and this is not the way it used to be.... 

I will always wonder if this is part of the new me...Was my discovering the Internet part of my wake up call to life?...Whatever has happened I love it....Love this site and my speaking of life...Not too shook over this lap top so I will close it off and head to the casino and lose my shirt...Love to all, Caroline...