French la Vie

Comments

18 responses to “My Legs Want to Move”

1. Melly

   19 July 2021

   We know we’re getting old when we can no longer put our socks on or cut our toe nails….

   Reply
2. g

   19 July 2021

   oh my gosh corey– i just, this evening, lamented to my sister i can feel the tides of change of perspective changing. Today began the high novena to St Anne and the church is a 30 minute drive on the interstate (95) from my house. Every year the traffic seems to get worse and what should be smooth sailing can take up to and over an hour. Well going there all these cars were literally flying by and cutting drivers off within inches …. doing i swear 90 plus miles per hour- i was scared of a pile up situation- i have driven this highway my whole life –morning– noon– night –middle of the night and never jave i physically pull up- flinch- squeeze the wheel like today. Then coming home it was the motorcycles weaving in and out at incredible speeds. I said to my sister I am getting old because this frightened me-her reply i don’t like driving at night. OH MY GOSH IT IS HAPPENING. too funny ….

   Reply
3. Leonie Buchanan

   19 July 2021

   When your grandaughter becomes 23, being married for 56yrs!

   Reply
4. Judith

   19 July 2021

   When you don’t know anything about current popular culture, and……….you don’t care!!!

   Reply
5. Jeanne

   19 July 2021

   Oh how I can relate to all……….
   As my darling Mother used to say aging is NOT for sissies
   Inch by inch life’s a cinch
   Yard by yard life is hard.
   Love Jeanne

   Reply
6. Doreen

   19 July 2021

   Sometimes there’s not a filter on what you think, it comes right on out your mouth and you don’t care. Well, you do but not as much as you should.

   Reply
7. jackie

   19 July 2021

   When you pick up People magazine while getting a pedi and don’t know any of the “famous” people.

   Reply
8. JudyO

   19 July 2021

   When you start playing 9 holes of golf instead of 18😄

   Reply
9. Fat Rabbit

   19 July 2021

   When your oldest grandchild graduates from college- feeling old right now.
   And what a trip you had! We live near the ocean so we have enormous traffic every summer weekend!

   Reply
10. Debby Holt

    19 July 2021

    When you realize that everyone in your experience is younger than you except your immediate friends; when you realize that all those younger ones look at you as an elderly person 🙁 🙂 But I do feel freer to speak my mind and not hold back.

    Reply
11. Judith

    19 July 2021

    When you are very careful not to hurt your back, as you want to be able to pick up your two year old grandaughter (who is exactly one month older than Gabriel).

    Reply
12. Suzan Rennie Stoddard

    19 July 2021

    When you make noises when sitting down and standing up. That lovely “umph” sound

    Reply
13. Jan

    20 July 2021

    When, in a room full of 200 people at a conference in Las Vegas, you find yourself the last one standing after an icebreaker that focused on number of years in your profession. (32yrs as a school counselor). It was humbling and just happened a week ago.

    Reply
14. Angela Vular

    20 July 2021

    When you realize you shouldn’t wear sleeveless tops because all of a sudden you see crepe skin! Where did that come from and when did it happen?

    Reply
15. jan

    20 July 2021

    When your first born son has hair as gray and white as my own…..
    And you become your husband’s caretaker and don’t know how long
    you can keep doing it…….

    Reply
16. Martina

    21 July 2021

    When you ask the teenage neighbor to help you walk to the grocery store because you still aren’t feeling that steady after leg issues from last year. I asked him to help the little old lady across the street and he was very serious and said sure, no problem and didn’t disagree that I was the little old lady.

    Reply
17. Marilyn

    23 July 2021

    When my one and only grandchild was born I was 69 years old and felt it. The first time I held him in my arms I realized I had to lift myself out of the slowing down and be there for him, to hold him when he cried and hug him when we laughed. It does take energy, is exhausting, but so amazingly worth those moments. After they go home we can rest and remember those moments. Aren’t we lucky ladies to have these little ones in our lives.

    Reply
18. Stubblejumpers Cafe

    27 July 2021

    At 62 I still don’t feel old, though in photos and sometimes the mirror I *look* older than I expect. Who IS that, I ask myself — now laughing, though I used to cringe. Now I get quite a kick out of that face that is such a shock to me.
    What makes me feel old? Nothing. Many of my interests and attitudes have changed from when I was younger, but I don’t think of them as making me old. I think of them as simple maturity that comes with living.
    Even though I go to bed early now and get up early, which I used to think was only what old people did, it doesn’t make me feel old. It makes me feel smarter than I used to be, but not old. Only much younger people see it as a habit of the old. I see it as something I finally got smart enough to do.
    Even all the silver hair mixed in with my ash blond doesn’t make me feel old. I like it! (“Just keep telling yourself that,” my mother-in-law says. But I do like it.)
    I often joke around, calling myself an old woman because of my age, but I still feel like a kid. I don’t mind the idea of being an old woman or getting old. I think as long as I’m healthy, I won’t mind getting old. Or older.
    Maybe when friends one’s own age start dying, one begins feeling old?
    Maybe when both parents have died, or a sibling?
    Even when I’m tired, I don’t feel old. I just feel tired.
    I do notice that people in their 20s and 30s and 40s treat me with great respect and courtesy, and only recently realized that’s probably because, to them, I’m an old woman. Can’t say I mind that at all.
    Some may say I’m in denial. Or “Just wait. You’ll find out.”
    I hope I will.
    -Kate

    Reply