~ AGING ~
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We turn, not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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I used to think that being young was
good and being old was undignified. But
then, I found program, and program
helped me find the natural wisdom that
comes from living over time without my
drug.
Now, middle-aged, I feel a power, wisdom
and dignity I've never felt
before. Youth was good. This is good,
too. For me, in fact, it's better. I
know myself at last. I have so many more
resources inside me. I am grateful to be
in my middle years.
As I get older, I seem to be getting
more innocent. I have less of a need to
fit in or please others or do things
because everyone else is doing them.
Somehow or another, this has cleared my
vision, and it is easier for me to see
things the way they really are, and to
appreciate things for themselves.
In the end, it is easier, every day, to
see myself for who I really am and to
accept and to love myself.
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I am willing to be innocent and new, to
follow wherever my Higher Power leads me
next.