Age isn't everything....is it????

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, but when I grew up, I put childish ways behind me"......

Today I went for a long walk with murphy, I walked a lot, spoke at murphy a lot, and thought a lot.
I ended up in Balmerino abbey were this magnificent tree is....it's a spanish chestnut, and was planted in the foundations in 1229....there have been core borings taken and the tree is known to be between 400-435 years young!!!!

This got me to thinking, as well as a particular reply to yesterday's blip.....

When I was young, I could think of nothing more delicious than being older, and being a grown up....why?...I don't know...now I am older, I can honestly say, I wouldn't want to be young again, but I question my life so much more.....would I change it?..
When I was young I couldn't wait to...
1...have a boyfriend....done that
2...learn to drive....done that
3...fall in love....done that many times....as my mother used to say, "if I had a penny for every time I had my heart broken"....done that, and then some....
4...Move out....hehe...did that...
5...be old enough to drink....hmmm...ok yeah
6...get married....check...refer to number 3...
7...live my life as I want....doing that..kind of
8...stand up for myself and tell that horrible person they were so wrong....done that
9...have a child.....ok not done that as yet..
10...be a grown up............no answer...
11...know everything....hmmm
12...lived my life......????

Methuselah lived until he was 969 years old...do you think he did everything in his lifetime that he wanted to do???..did he achieve everything?...know everything??..live his life????...I doubt it....

Every day is a new day, a new chapter, a new beginning....I may be 38, but show me a rule book that says you have to behave or act a certain way at a certain age....hmmmm.....

I have so many many things I would change in a second, given half the chance, but would I really want to???...my experiences have moulded me into the person you have before you...good or bad...as my blip says, I'm just me, nothing special, just me......

In ending, where do I go from here?...I start my list again...minus number 3...but this time I'm doing it with my friend, my life, my love...my Scott....and maybe this time I may make it to numbers11 & 12...which is an iconic addition as a numbers freak....lol

"...growing old is inevitable....growing up is optional...."