Category: ageing

Pushing up the daisies?

Joey Jones4 Comments

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

WP, maybe if you had asked where you would like to see yourself in 10 years. You seem to forget we can’t even predict tomorrow, this afternoon.

But I get your drift 😏 and I think this is best answered by the younger bloggers amongst us. Their visions and dreams have some scope there.

Moi? Still happy and healthy in my own skin. Sharing my life with a cat or dog. Just going about my life pretty much as I am now. That would be cool.

A huge lottery win would be fabulous, and I could do a lot with that, to keep me busy, or not.

Isn’t she lovely?

Failing that I’ll be OK just doing what I’m doing.

Child’s play…

Joey Jones9 Comments

What does it mean to be a kid at heart?

There must be millions of people who had their childhoods snatched away one way or another and never got to experience being a child. My heart goes out to them.

Many of us maybe think the kids are growing up too fast these days. But ask a little one how old they are, and they’ll hit you with something like ‘ seven and a half’  to let you know they’re on the way to being eight. They really want you to know that.

Then there is the thing of becoming a teenager, sixteen or twenty-one. So, youngsters are all looking forward, they are wanting to grow up, cruising through the years until suddenly big birthdays are not quite as exciting.

This is where you really do want to recognise that you have regained some childlike ( as opposed to childish) qualities. To enjoy having fun, being a bit silly sometimes, loving to laugh, to not taking oneself too seriously, with a light heartedness that is to feel an easy joy.. and yes, to remain curious… To leave the light on…