December Daily: looking forward to getting older

[resonant]

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.



Upcoming prompts below the cut.




16 clevermanka - Five pieces of treasured advice
17 dine - Top five ice cream flavors
18 rhi Five favorite Christmas treats (cookies to make, mulled cider, Advent calendars, e.g.)
19 china_shop - Top five devices/appliances/bluetooth thingies/whatever :-)
20 dorinda - Top 5 comfort movies? Or comfort reads, if you'd rather
21 summerstorm - because it puts me in mind of blackjack, do you play any card or board games regularly? Or videogames? top 5 games?
22 summerstorm - top 5 poems?
23 fox - Top five Advent carols, maybe
24 fox - Top five Christmas carols
25 break for Christmas
26 ride_4ever - top 5 dS fanworks other than fic (arts, podfics, vids)
27 azurelunatic - 5 reasons you enjoy a party in the dark times of the year
28 james - Top 5 places in the past you would like to visit. Top 5 places in the present you would like to visit.
29 laurenthemself - Top five snack foods (sorry, the requested date got taken between the time you posted and the time I edited)
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31 mergatrude - what five complements/encouragements would you give your young self.

Comments

[watersword]

I would love to hear about your yoga therapist!

[resonant]

I'll take that on after December is over.

[kass]

♥

[resonant]

<3

[the_future_modernes]

oooh the precognition sounds cool! A little more magic in the world. And all the rest also sound cool as well! Thank you for your answers they make me think!

[resonant]

It was a really thought-provoking prompt!

[trobadora]

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?

That is an excellent skill to have!

(I'm also bad at catching balls. *g*)

[resonant]

Yeah, I'm not getting any better at that, but I'm breaking fewer things, at least.

[lunabee34]

Hugs

Chronic pain is such a bitch. I'm sorry you're a member of the club.

[resonant]

Even thinking of it as chronic pain is something I'm struggling with. My yoga therapist is partly a therapist like in physical therapy, and partly a therapist like in "Let's talk about how you're feeling about this."

[lunabee34]

Oh my friend. I get it. I am stuck in the anger and despair portion of the grieving process myself because I'm not getting any better and am, in fact, continuing to deteriorate physically, and it sucks. It sucks, it sucks.

/commiseration

[resonant]

Oh, it sucks so much. I'm so sorry.

And do you have people in your life who really need you to keep reassuring them? that it's not too bad, or that it's going to get better?

I have a terrible feeling that I used to be one of those people until it happened to me. I don't like learning experiences.

[lunabee34]

No, fortunately I have extremely understanding people in my life. My partner is so supportive, and my friends are very supportive. I'm the one with the inner monologue of all the things you don't want people to say to you. I'm the asshole and everyone else has been great. LOL

*hugs*

[summerstorm]

I’m looking forward to menopause so bad. I’m 33 so I got 12 years to go. I also love my white hairs!

2 & 1 are so real.

[resonant]

Menopause definitely has advantages. Also has drawbacks that I wasn't aware of -- it's been amazing to me how little information there is, and how much of it is either not accurate to me in particular or not accurate to, like, anybody I know.

[summerstorm]

Yeah, every time I hear something about it, it’s like ‘well that’s completely new to me’. I’m hoping it will treat me well (my period has always treated me well, it’s just inconvenient) but who knows really.

[resonant]

fenopause is a good place to ask questions. I'm also always happy to talk shamelessly about socially unacceptable topics.

[norah]

1 & 2 are so huge.

[resonant]

Can't remember which movie it was where the character says, "We grow too soon old and too late schmart."