As we grow older, our bodies become sluggish,
We can’t leap, or jump, or run as fast as when we were
young,
We drop like rocks into our seats rather than sit
down gracefully,
We rise up pushing
against the arms of our chairs rather than jumping up quickly,
If we sit still for
any length of time, we take a power nap.
As we grow older, our
bodies begin to break down and we need medicine,
Medicine for ailments
like arthritis, indigestion, and high blood pressure,
We need glasses to
read, and drive, and see our medicine bottles,
We need hearing aids
to listen to the radio, the television, and our grandchildren,
Every movement may
cause a symphony of sounds, creaks, and groans.
As we grow older, our
minds slow down and our memory escapes us,
What happened fifty years ago is vivid but
yesterday is lost,
We recollect names but only after going down the
roll call,
We enter a room and forget what we went for,
We start a conversation and then exclaim, “Oops, I
lost it!”
I heard a wonderful senior saint comment recently,
I’m eighty-two years old and I respect my age,
I get help to walk down stairs or step off curbs
when I need it,
I pray every morning that my eyes will see and my
ears will hear,
That my mind will remain sharp and my thinking lucid.
So, as my senior years
come upon me (and they are advancing at breakneck speed),
I want to approach my life with those same words of
wisdom,
Give myself every opportunity to be safe and
healthy in body, mind, and spirit,
Avoid bringing calamity
upon myself and heartache to my family who loves me, and
RESPECT MY AGE
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