4 Hard Truths About Getting Older That Everyone Should Accept
A reflection and plan.
The CD is now 40 years old.
If that doesn’t make some of you feel old, I don’t know what will.
Time is marching forward with or without us. Here are a few hard truths I’m coming to accept.
A reflection on our use of time
I was 16 on the last day I saw my grandmother.
We were leaving to fly back to California. We’d gone to church earlier that morning.
A few months later, my dad came in and had a heart-to-heart and said, “I don’t think your grandmother has much time left.”
I was surprised and said, “How do you know?
“She just hasn’t been well lately. She’s been in and out of the hospital.”
Less than 2 weeks later, she was gone. It was my first experience with loss.
I look back at old family photos and see such a different era of my life. My parents were robust and full of life (and very much still are):
