Random thought

Just a quick post this morning...

Thinking about the things that come with advancing years: experience, maturity, wisdom, friends and freedom.

Yes - freedom!

A few weeks ago we took a trip to Dallas - we are not prone to flying, preferring to see where we are going on the way to where we are going, but time required that mode of transportation. I have not flown in years, and am usually petrified. So I asked my Christian Sisters to keep us in prayer, and the flights - both there and back - caused me no anxiety!

I have been thinking about this in the ensuing few weeks, and realize that there are things I do now, that I would have been scared to do in the past, that do not make me nauseous and faint. I can have blood drawn at the lab and get a check-up at the doctor's office. I have made dental appointments that do not fill me with dread.

There are still things that scare me - like colonoscopies and spiders and bats - but the fact the some things of which I used to be dreadfully afraid are manageable makes me believe that I will be able to conquer other fears as well...

Freedom from fear.

Oh - and that empty nest thing? It gives you the freedom to have whatever for dinner. It gives you the freedom to choose the channel, or leave the tv off. It gives you the freedom to come home early or late and not have to think of any schedules except one's own. And there's the freedom to then plan those evenings to meet with one's own interests and goals. And that of one's spouse, of course.

Are you enjoying the freedoms that come with being over 50? Please share!