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Transition From Youth

Transitions from youth
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Do you ever find yourself rhyming without even thinking about it?  When that happens to me, I go with the flow.  Most of my attempts wind up crumpled on the floor. But this one seemed to fly.  Something different this week.  Please try it on for size.

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Transition From Youth –  #380

I look around at youth today 
So little do they know 
They think that they have mastered things 
While we’ve turned sad and slow

Their life – a giant picture book 
Where nothing has been written 
They’ve not known grief or been in love 
Or barely even smitten

It takes a lot of travelin’ days 
To reach this age and place 
To trade in youth for hair of white 
And corrugated face

There’s less time left 
And what there is 
Goes rushing by so fast 
Until the time has come 
When life is mostly in the past.

But realize in time that’s left 
That every single day 
Presents an opportunity 
For love and joy and play

So I will keep my fantasies 
And write and speak and giggle 
And put up with the parts that hurt 
Or cramp or crack or jiggle

‘Cause life is truly precious 
A daily gift from God 
Not to sing this miracle 
Would indeed be odd

Give thanks for what has come before 
And too what lies ahead 
For friends and kids and memories 
And fine red wine and bread

Let’s party on through this life phase  
Enjoying every minute 
For you will only get from life 
As much as you put in it.

By Annette Petrick for Consider This.

Show #380

Special Distribution – July  2018

P.S.  

With an attitude to match our aptitude, we don’t have to worry about transitioning from youth.  We can keep our boyish charm and our girlish flirtation and just add the years on, as they come, enjoying each day for its own worth.     

[Show #380]

Filed Under: Advice, Inspiration/Life Lessons, Podcast Episodes Tagged With: youth

They Kept the Look of Youth

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Couple using a selfie stick
Couple using a selfie stick

How fortunate are those who find the one they love, early in life, and keep that loved one throughout the years.

In our youth, each of us so beautiful and handsome in our fit, eager bodies.  So full of hope and belief in the future.

And when that love has seen us through the years and we are old, how magical that we can look at each other and not see the years mirrored as others see them.

Behind the gray locks and wrinkled cheeks, each of us can still see the essence of what attracted us decades before.  The twinkling eyes . . . the slender neck . . . the laughter at silly humor and private jokes.

Your friends see an old man telling stories of how things used to be.  I see a high school jock scoring the winning points.  My friends see a woman beyond her prime, fighting gravity and wondering where the years have gone.  You still call me beautiful and touch my face with a gentleness that speaks volumes.

How wonderful to find that the best part of young love is the joy and fulfillment of old love.

 

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Filed Under: Getting Older, Love/Romance, Podcast Episodes Tagged With: love, youth

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