What are some thing you wanted to do? Are any of them things you can do now? I am very physically limited now but some things I wanted to do involve writing skills. I recently wrote a children's book which a son in law is illustrating. He will be leaving for Iraq very soon and will work on it while he is there in his off hours.
Writing is something I can do but other things I would like to have done are opportunities gone by. What are things you like to do?

> Aging is not a very easy thing. Some days, I
> really don't care about it, until I look at
> myself in the mirror and don't see the
> person I imagine that I am. I don't look to
> old physically, but my weight and other
> things about myself are not that great.
> What I would really like and I hate about
> aging, is that people see you different,
> they see you as >, as my youngest son
> would put it. You don't feel old inside, but
> then you have more physical limitations. I
> wanted to go biking the other day after a
> surgery, but the hot weather and my big body
> had made it difficult. My husband brought my
> bicycle back in his car at my return. I am
> pretty lucky though, besides my kidney stone
> problems ,I don't have too many others. I am
> starting to have a hard time to go up the
> stairs, as I feel a little something in my
> knees, but stubbornly I go up anyway, at
> least at work or in my house.
> I have nothing against the
> "number" represented by my age,
> but I would like it to be only a number for
> others too. If only I would look
> ""fit"", the look of
> others would instantly change. I know we
> don't live for others, but it is important
> to be validated for who we are inside,
> instead of the look we have outside.
> But, it is not only for older people, it is
> also for the young who don't fit into the
> mold.
> I am not glad to see that many years have
> past and that I did not do a lot of things
> that I wanted to do.