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The Doctor said, "try and make the best of it". So I'm going to try. I sure hate getting older. But that's the way it goes.
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I dunno, Blue - I reckon '
getting older' is a
much better option than the alternative, ie.
not getting any older!!
But I hafta admit that there are many days where I really do wish my crock of a body just didn't hurt quite so bloody much!
Still, I don't really regret any of what I've done to get to be this old and ache so much/in so many places; plus, after having been told
sooo many times by Doctors and others that I really shouldn't have survived something that I did just survive, which by rights &/or all expectations shoulda killed me; and yet here I still am,
still looking down on the daisies instead of pushing them up; I can only believe that someone, somewhere, still has a plan for me/there's something I've still gotta do!
Besides, like my old Mum used to say (only for about 50 years or so before she passed, effectively when she decided and on her own terms, at the ripe old age of 98!

) that "
only the good die young!" - so I reckon that since I've probly got a fair while to go yet, I guess I should try to make the most of it!
Which all boils down to the fact that, for me at least, I truly can't hate the idea of '
getting older' as such; but somehow, I still reckon I'm entitled to grumble about how much it hurts these days at every opportunity - after all, I've been being called a grumpy old man for years now, and I never was one to let people down on that sorta score!
But the bleedin' weather here atm, with temps barely above 0 degrees C (despite the sunshine) teaming up with winds that're howling straight off the Ice pack and then getting colder over thousands of kms of freezing Antarctic Ocean, so that by the time they get here, they're causing frosts that are pushing 25mm thick on any exposed surface and them'n the fog that hangs around until near Midday really don't help ease the aches & pains any either!! Right now, it's easier to report that 'my left knee doesn't hurt atm (but just give it a minute!)' than it is to list off what actually
is hurting! I guess it's all a great reminder to get on with whatever it is that I'm meant to be doing... now if only I knew what that was??
