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Having spent most of the last week locked in battle with the blog layout, combined with working most days also - tonight I decided to take a break and spent some time in my living-room chair.
Idly picked up a nearby pile of books, left to hand to encourage me to read them. The one I chose to browse through is a copy of Dorothy Carnegie’s ‘Don’t Grow Old, Grow Up’ - and I have had it since 1991 - the year I completed the Dale Carnegie course ... (but that’s another story..)
I had obviously started reading it back then, because inside I found a few placemarkers, a couple of interesting photos and a handwritten poem. It’s the poem that really takes me into the past - I remember writing it - I am trying to remember .. why?
A clue, I guess .. is the book that I found it in?
Idly picked up a nearby pile of books, left to hand to encourage me to read them. The one I chose to browse through is a copy of Dorothy Carnegie’s ‘Don’t Grow Old, Grow Up’ - and I have had it since 1991 - the year I completed the Dale Carnegie course ... (but that’s another story..)
I had obviously started reading it back then, because inside I found a few placemarkers, a couple of interesting photos and a handwritten poem. It’s the poem that really takes me into the past - I remember writing it - I am trying to remember .. why?
A clue, I guess .. is the book that I found it in?
-fears-
That I might fall over
or be somewhere broke and alone
making a fool of myself, showing my ignorance
Is my pride my biggest hurt
Is it laziness that makes me slothful
or just too tired -
At my age?
Is that what I fear - to age?
or just to do it badly, without taste
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Treasures can turn up in the strangest places Della, (and junk too) I often come across a sheet of paper with a few random words and what appears to be some highly involved form of calculas on them, and I have NO IDEA what they were about. Senior Moments!!!!
I try to resist fiddling with my blog layout because things can go ever so wrong! I love the clock, calendar and other goodies you have, but it was when I tried to add a clock and my whole sidebar slid to Antarctica that I decided, Nup, I'll leave it alone.
I haven't read that book but the title sounds a bit patronising. Did it/the course at least offer some good advice? If it caused you to reflect on your life and inspire you to write that poem, that seems useful. Did you move on from there (not necessarily "growing up")? That's the important thing.
Della: Unlike you I´ve given up work, retired and started a new life.
I dread growing up - I´ve not got round to thinking about growing old yet.
Peter, there have been times when I have followed the advice and kept a notepad and pen beside the bed to record those middle-of-the-night inspirations. And sometimes that has even been useful Perhaps my memory has always been 'unstable'....
Val, I think I am a glutton for punishment - this sort of thing has been part of my work in one way or another over the years - now I enjoy doing it as a hobby! And of course, I cannot accept that something I want to do cannot be done - the way I want it - some might say 'obsessive' - I like to think tenacious...
I haven't actually read the book, not all of it - the course I did was as part of a management team exercise with a firm of accountants I was working for at the time - mostly about public speaking and management skills. The book was a 'prize' I won for one of the exercises. I was much younger then, and put it aside - I am looking forward to seeing what the author had to say, the book was written a long time ago.
Kaz - I have had conflicting signals about this whole new thing - whatever 'its' called.
I am getting there; I don't care about how others choose to categorise me - I've always had to fight that one anyway - no, it's more about feeling comfortable - being able to say "hey, so I am 60 - so what?"... but first I have to convince myself... it's working... I have no wish to pursue the illusion of youth - old is only a word - seniors rock!
I must admit that I too can get caught up in something that SHOULD (SHOULD!) be possible, when it comes to computers, software, etc. What really gets me though is when something has PREVIOUSLY worked a certain way, and then suddenly it doesn't any more. Grrr.
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