WITH AGE COMES WISDOM - AGING STILL SUCKS!

That old saying is absolutely true. Now that I am in my 60's, the truth is revealed. I love love love the wisdom I have gained. But first I have to apologize for using that nasty s... word. I detest it and never use it. But I must admit for my title, it is an eye catcher, and may even make some people chuckle. Author's license again, and very useful. That is why writing appeals to me so much. We can write to our hearts content. But if it is appealing, and has something of value, we can share with others. I hope to get to that point, where my words mean something to others.

I digressed - age and wisdom - that is on my mind today. These next two days I will be visiting my son and daughter-in-law.  On my drive here, I got excited thinking about the things I have learned - mostly about people, relationships, my intuitions, trivial things I am interested in, business related things, etc, etc. As a 30- something, I became interested in personal growth. My 2-3 years of college was a yawner for me. I preferred reading books that I chose, subjects that appealed to me.

If you read my post from a few days ago,  you will know this online dating started out horribly for me (in the first few days).  A man pretending to be someone he was not, with obvious ulterior motives, had two profiles to stalk his victims. (At least two, who knows.) No more air time for that scoundrel, clearly. We need to pay attention to our intuitions, always. I know people really well. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. This is a strength of mine and I love it. And personality styles I wrote about recently, they are fun to understand. Because it helps us to understand why the people we work with, or our spouse, or children, do what they do. And why we are the way we are - and we can learn to love being who we are.

Why is this a topic today? Because as I was driving here, I was laughing thinking about my future conversations with the dates I will have. They will be nothing like the dates I had as a 23 year old -
not even close! When you get to this age and you know what you want in a spouse, you won't settle for anything less. At least I certainly am not. After reading many profiles of the men I was checking out, they all have the same idea. Getting the woman of their dreams. Online dating is very awkward, it's not natural, and you have to learn how it works. You have to get out of your comfort zone. My people skills will come in handy, I am not shy, as you have guessed.  It is hilarious to me thinking about the information I want to know. Funnier yet, is thinking how will it surface?

Anyway, enough of that. I am blessed to have 6 kids (including my 3 daughters-in-law) and an adorable 7 month old grand daughter. I value family time, so I will close.

Thank you and God Bless!   Aleta

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."  Dr. Seuss