Let’s Laugh at Ourselves
Getting Older is Silly!
Have you noticed?
For most people, getting older happens slowly throughout a couple of decades. For me, however, it happened in a matter of two weeks. Talk about SHOCK!
One day I was fine, putting in my ten-hour days away from home at my job. I was on the highway going to and fro, working hard and using the weekends to rest for the next marathon week.
Then a simple infection led to septicemia and my life changed forever as I headed to retirement.
Due to it happening so quickly, I felt ‘old’ quickly, too.
It can happen to anyone at any age
Getting older is just plain silly when:
One can be heard saying, “I don’t know when I had time to work…I am so BUSY.” Silly!
Someone older than you says ‘Hi’ in the grocery store like they are a lifelong friend and you know that you’ve never seen them before. Do they have dementia or do you? Silly!
You purchase one of those ‘young’ purses with a long shoulder strap to keep things easier and you find yourself walking across the restaurant parking lot, dragging the purse along as it is attached to your ankle. Silly!
You are sitting in the car, halfway in and halfway out, your umbrella won’t go up or down and you are stuck, getting soaked because you can’t get the mechanism to work. Silly!
You can’t open the top to the life-saving medication because your hands aren’t strong enough to break through the childproof barrier. Silly!
You can feel bones, joints, and nerves you didn’t know existed in your body. Also silly, almost!
You need one pair of glasses for outside, one for the computer and one for reading. Silly!
You lose something, just knowing that someone took it (like a pair of pants). A month later, you find them in your closet. Silly!
You drop something under your bed and cannot pick it up from under there. It is never seen or remembered ever again. Silly!
Memories from long ago days seem more real than present happenings. Silly!
You find yourself marking X for the spot for every bathroom in every store or outing. Silly!
Your eyes see horses alongside the road and they are mailboxes. Thankfully, you are just a passenger. Silly!
You think you have a rare disease causing you to drop everything because your hands just don’t grasp like they used to. Silly!
The eye chart, only filled with letters, is now showing pictures. Silly!
You find yourself counting how many items you drop each day, learning to use an extension of your hand, a grabber. Silly!
Dinner is planned and yet you can’t unscrew the jar lid because it is on too tightly. Or you can’t get the can opener to open anything either. One could starve. NOT silly!
You try to walk a straight line. You find that you cannot because your balance is off. One knows one’s circus days are over. Silly!
Gardening, which includes digging in the dirt, planting, and harvesting must be done at waist level or above. Silly!
You find that when cutting one’s nails, a simple task becomes a job for a contortionist. And that’s just the fingernails! Silly!
When the news states that there was an earthquake in Oklahoma in the morning and in the afternoon a small table begins to shake in your home, you know an earthquake is happening. A basket of thread falls on the floor and you freak out as you begin searching the web for the Michigan earthquake. Silly!
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Dawn Ulmer has enjoyed writing since the age of 19 when she wrote ‘My Philosophy of Nursing’. After marrying and becoming a mother, she developed a newsletter for young mothers called ‘Moms and Sidekicks’. She has been a columnist for a women’s newspaper in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the subject of time management. From that column, her first book was written and published: “Balance of the Hurried Woman”. Through the years, she has been published in “Decision’ magazine”, “Our Daily Bread“ devotional and other publications. Presently, she is enjoying writing on Medium, her favorite platform.
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