Must Update Charity Crafting and Prayers Posts, etc.

When a friend emailed me a few days ago mentioning she had not seen a post recently, I realized it had been a while. I started catching up on basic posts. But I must also catch up on the charity crafting and prayer posts, hopefully this week.

Isn't it amazing how easily, as we get older, time gets away from us? And it's not only that time gets away, and it's not only that we are just plain slower, but it's also so much easier to become distracted from things we plan to do.

And when I said "slower," I didn't mean either physically or mentally, but likely both. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, or something to worry about. I think it's natural. Most of us in our 70s and 80s are no longer working outside. True, we might now be caregiving, or nursing some of our own maladies. Those last two require us to be slower, more methodical, more careful. So, we shouldn't blame ourselves or feel guilty. We just need to acknowledge it and work with it and adapt to a more relaxed, more watchful routine and life.

As far as distractions go, many of us were great at multi-tasking while "on the job." After work schedules disappear into memory, there's no longer a rigid, fixed, obligatory need to do 15 things at once. Of course, sometimes I now find it tricky to just do 3 things at once - like remember something is on the stove while I load the washer and remember to make that phone call I've been putting off.

Life doesn't ever really get boring; it does become different as we mature. I prefer to think we are "maturing" rather than "aging." I'm not a lover of buzz words, but I do like that thought.

Rolling along...