Aging gracefully

My daughter stopped in to see me the other day so we could catch up on what has been going on in each others lives. She just had her 25th Birthday at the end of the month, and doesn't seem to be too happy about it. I remember last month my son feeling the same way when he turned 28. They both used the word old. Old at 25 and 28? But they are still babies! Do they think I am ancient at the age of 48? Well, she did say she hopes she looks as good as I do at my age, so I guess I will refrain from smacking her. I tried to think back to when I was 25 to remember my thoughts about it, and of course my life was much different than hers. I was married and had 2 kids by then, but I guess I never really thought of myself as being old just thinking maybe I should have enjoyed my youth a little longer before settling down.

I think when we are young we all set goals of where we would like to be at a certain age in our lives, and when we're not we feel like too much time has passed that we can't get back. As we get older, you know, closer to my age we realize that life doesn't always go as planned, and sometimes there are reasons we are not where we wanted to be. I didn't really plan on getting married and having children at such a young age, it just sort of worked out that way. I've never been one to set goals for certain time frames of my life, I've always just gone with what felt right at the time. Maybe that's why I don't really have a lot of regret about not achieving every goal I have set forth for myself before getting older.

You're never really too old to change course if things don't work out the way you've planned, and for some of us no matter what we have achieved it's never good enough. I think that if we've spent our time enjoying the ride and continuously find happiness in everything we do, we have achieved far more than we have ever thought reaching in the goals we have set forth for ourselves. If that doesn't make you feel better about aging at least you can say you have achieved getting old.

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