Don't Put Things Off

Somehow today I feel the need to write something. I am not sure what or why. To be honest one reason is that I am less than 7,000 views short of a million views. Maybe one more blog will bring me closer to that number. I have never monetized this blog so I have never made any money from it. Getting to 1,000,000 is just a personal goal. It has always been just a chronicle of my life over the past twelve years. During that time my parents and my husband have died and my grandchildren are grown up. I had so many opportunities to write about them growing up. Now I rarely know what is going on, but that is how it should be. I will always be grateful to have documented some special times with all of them. 

I still feel good for age 77. My biggest problem is that I know I can't do what I used to but I still want to. I get so antsy just sitting around. Everyday I want to do something because I know there will be days in the future that I won't be able to. It is frustrating though to think of that hourglass of time. Young people won't understand any of this. I sure didn't when my mother said "you don't know what it's like to be my age." I would say "oh mom, you're fine". And then one day she was gone. 

I researched trips today. I found an awesome trip to Fairbanks, Alaska to see the Northern Lights. They see them 99% of the time and even come to wake you up in the middle of the night if a particularly good one appears. Then I read the details, which sound fantastic, but I think I missed my window of opportunity. Activities like walking with reindeer through a birch forest or snowshoeing might just be a little too ambitious. I just took a walk on my snowy trail. I did fine but I knew I was close to home if I fell or got too tired. 

I found a beautiful train trip through the Canadian Rockies, but I have been on train trips and always swore I would never do it again. My body didn't stop moving for days after getting off the train. I can't imagine what would happen to me now. 

I would love to just take a trip to Cave Point County park in Door County Wisconsin or see the blue ice near Gills Rock but those are activities that need to be planned. Planning to see those things has to be spontaneous or lucky because in one day the event could disappear. Driving alone at my age isn't really a good idea either. I take drives around the area just to have a change of scenery but never too far from home.

Right now people and events are beyond anything I can comprehend. All this has caused them to be suspicious and not trusting of anything or anyone. The social media sites and the internet hasn't helped that situation. I was always such a logical concrete sequential person, but that is all out the window. Hopefully we can return to a kinder society or maybe I was naive and it never was, but I liked living with blinders on. 

As I sit here enjoying my view, I am more fortunate than most, I really am grateful. 

I guess you always want more time and excitement but ignore what is right in front of your eyes. I didn't know what I was going to write about today, but now I do. The message is "Don't Put Things Off". No matter what it is, do it now. If you want to sit and read for 12 hours, do it. If you want to take a 30 day cruise, do it. Make time to Love and Live and Appreciate. You won't regret it.