I must have chosen this topic when I was much younger, because now I’m not certain I have the energy to cover it.\u00a0 Before age 21-25, time crawls.\u00a0 You can never get old enough fast enough.\u00a0 If only you could be at this point (specifically, some point in the future) in your life, things would be great.\u00a0 After around 25, time accelerates, and you never have enough time to do what you want and need to do.\u00a0 That’s fine.\u00a0 Your body (unless your body has rebelled or not cooperated before this time, and you have had to fight it your entire life, for which you have my sympathy) still allows you to think you’ll be able to do everything for a long, long time.<\/p>\n
Then comes the time when your body puts a stop payment on the checks you try to get it to cash.\u00a0 This is one area where I’ve found a need to develop “Understanding.”\u00a0 There was a time when I could be lying on the floor and actually jump to a standing position.\u00a0 I did not understand why other people couldn’t do it.\u00a0 Now, if I have somehow made it onto the floor without breaking a bone or tearing a tendon, achieving a standing position is time consuming and painful.\u00a0 If you’ve seen a toddler try to stand, it’s kind of like that, but much more slowly and with a lot more pain.\u00a0 On a bright note, it usually involves achieving the yoga position known as “Downward Facing Dog<\/a>” before walking myself up to a standing position.\u00a0 If this made you laugh because you haven’t found yourself in this situation yet, your time is coming.\u00a0 Maybe not until long after you’re fifty, but you will experience this at some point in your life.\u00a0 If you’ve been there, you know what I mean. (As an aside, my husband is 75 and he doesn’t have much trouble at all with getting up from or down to the floor. He’s not as zippy as I once was, but he make me look glacial.)<\/p>\n Gathering cats to put them in carriers is no fun at all.\u00a0 Especially when one or more cats decides to locate under a piece of furniture.\u00a0 With us shuttling between Central Texas and San Antonio one or more times a month, this exercise in hide and seek gets old fast.<\/p>\n For all the benefits of youth, I have no desire to be young again, even as enticing as the ability to move my body sounds.\u00a0 My body was probably in it’s best shape when I was 25-28 years old.\u00a0 That also corresponds to some of the worst years of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I must have chosen this topic when I was much younger, because now I’m not certain I have the energy to cover it.\u00a0 Before age 21-25, time crawls.\u00a0 You can never get old enough fast enough.\u00a0 If only you could be at this point (specifically, some point in the future) …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15644,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/15644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}