December Daily: looking forward to getting older

the_future_modernes - top five things you look forward to as you grow older

I appreciated this prompt. I've been feeling kind of low about aging, mostly because I have tendinitis in my groin muscle (as if I were an athlete, which I so am not) which makes it painful to walk or stand much, and I feel like I've been in physical therapy* for a hundred years, and things like "persisting when progress is slow" and "doing a little tiny thing every day over and over rather than doing a big thing now now now and hurting myself" are really a struggle for me.

So it was good to be prompted to think about things to look forward to.

5. I've been developing what feels like a very small, very limited kind of precognition, mostly related to physical objects. Two, three seconds into the future, where is this measuring cup going to be, and at what angle? and the liquid in it, where is that going to be? (Possibly this is something that other people have had all along, and that's why when someone tosses a ball to them, they can catch it. It's new to me.) I'm enjoying it, and looking forward to a slightly less klutzy future.

4. Yesterday I was talking about being exactly the right age to enjoy Eliot's "Four Quartets." I'm sure there are other works that are going to open up for me.

3. My mother never gets a cold. She says she's already had them all. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

2. Over time I can see myself getting less hard on the world, if that makes any sense. I'm a little more relaxed about some of the imperfections of things. I'm learning to let things slide.

1. Over time I can see myself getting a little less hard on myself, too.



*sometime I want to tell y'all about my yoga therapist, because she's the greatest.



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