AGING ~

[janbear]

AGING ~

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We turn, not older with years, but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

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We honor ourselves and our friends
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.