Quote from Forum Archives on January 1, 2007, 12:17 pm

Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>

 

Happy New Year 2007 may the new year be your best year ever and that the Lord will shower you with many blessings this new year.

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"New Year Resolutions"

 

 

Have more patience

Appreciate the small things

Practice putting others first

Put laughter in my life

Yell less

 

Never put anyone down

Eagerly do my chores

Willingly give

 

Yearn for knowledge

Elevate others

Assume responsibility for mistakes

Remember to smile a lot

 

"Attainable New Year's Resolutions"

 

This year, I resolve to...

Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.

Stop exercising. Waste of time.

Read less. Makes you think.

Watch more TV. I've been missing some good stuff.

Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow.

Spend more time at work, surfing with the T1.

Take a vacation to someplace important: like, to see the largest ball of twine.

Not jump off a cliff just because everyone else did.

Stop bringing lunch from home: I should eat out more.

Get in a whole NEW rut!

Start being superstitious.

Speak in a monotone voice and only use monosyllabicwords.

Only wear jeans that are 2 sizes too small and use a chain or rope for a belt.

Spend my summer vacation in Cyberspace.

Not eat cloned meat.

Create loose ends.

Get more toys.

Get further in debt.

Not believe politicians.

Not drive a motorized vehicle across thin ice.

Avoid transmission of inter-species diseases.

Avoid airplanes that spontaneously drop 1000 feet.

Stay off the International Space Station.

Not swim with pirhanas or sharks.

Associate with even worse business clients.

Spread out priorities beyond my ability to keep track of them.

Wait around for opportunity.

Focus on the faults of others.

Mope about my faults.

Never make New Year's resolutions again.

 

"Remember When"

 

 

Old age, I decided, is a gift.
I am now, probably for the first time in my life,
the person I have always wanted to be.
Oh, not my body!
I sometimes despair over my body ...
the wrinkles, the baggy eyes,
and the sagging butt.

 

And often I am taken aback
by that old person that
lives in my mirror,
but I don't agonize over
those things for long.

 

I would never trade
my amazing friends,
my wonderful life,
my loving family
for less grey hair or
a flatter belly.
As I've aged,
I've become more kind to myself,
and less critical of myself.
I've become my own friend.

 

I don't chide myself
for eating that extra cookie,
or for not making my bed,
or for buying that silly
cement gecko that I didn't need,
but looks so avant-garde
 on my patio.

 

I am entitled to overeat,
to be messy,
to be extravagant.
I have seen too many
dear friends leave this
 world too soon;
before they understood
the great freedom
that comes with aging.

 

Whose business is it
if I choose to read or play
on the computer until 4 a.m.
and sleep until noon?

 

I will dance with myself to
those wonderful tunes
of the 60's, and if I,
at the same time, wish to
weep over a lost love...
I will.

 

I will walk the beach
in a swim suit that is
stretched over a bulging body,
and will dive into the waves
with abandon if I choose to,
despite the pitying glances
from the bikini set.

 

They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful.
But there again, some of life
is just as well forgotten .
and I eventually remember
the important things.

 

Sure, over the years,
my heart has been broken.
How can your heart not break
when you lose a loved one,
or when a child suffers,
or even when a beloved pet
gets hit by a car?

 

But broken hearts are what
give us strength and
understanding and compassion.
A heart never broken is
pristine and sterile
and will never know the joy
of being imperfect.

 

I am so blessed
to have lived long enough
to have my hair turn grey,
and to have my youthful
laughs be forever etched
into deep grooves on my face.

 

So many have never laughed,
and so many have died
before their hair could turn silver.
I can say "no", and mean it.
I can say "yes", and mean it.

 

As you get older,
it is easier to be positive.
You care less about
what other people think.
I don't question myself anymore.
I've even earned the right
 to be wrong.

 

So, to answer your question,
I like being old.
It has set me free.
I like the person I have become.

 

I am not going to live forever,
but while I am still here,
I will not waste time lamenting
what could have been,
or worrying about what will be.
but will continue
to rejoice in what was.
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Have a Blessed New Year

Dave and Barbara

 

 

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