Getting Old is HELL!!!

Now I know why our elders always shook their heads when we did all the crazy things when we were young and foolish. If they'd only just told us how we would "reap what we sow......" Jumping up and down on concrete cheerleading has just about done me in. I have a bad hip, bad knees and now my ankles and feet hurt. The doctor says it is just arthritis and I just have to live with it. I'm not a complainer and I have a high threshold for pain but still.....sometimes I look like Tim Conway's character back on the Carol Burnett show when he was the old guy who slowly shuffled along. That is exactly what I look like after sitting down for any length of time and then having to get up and move. And I've been so active my entire life. I don't know how easy it will be for me to stop. I want to keep moving so I can keep moving but am I doing more damage? Don't know yet. All I know is - now I know why some parents shelter their children and don't want them to play contact sports and stuff. It isn't that they are worried about them getting hurt then. It's all about the quality of life later on. But hindsight is 20/20. C'est la vie!

Sad.....

Even after all these years you'd think I would have learned not to let my so-called friends get to me. But they do. They will tell you lies and I guess they expect you to believe every word they say. I just don't understand it. Men are the worst....I think they live in a dream world (not mine for sure!) because they will create such magnificent stories and it sounds good but I know in my heart it isn't. I have one friend who is married but "pretends" he isn't when he talks to me. Sometimes I want to call his wife just to fill her in on what a loser she is married to but then I'd hurt her and she's just the innocent bystander. I wonder how many other women he strings along and acts like they are the "only true love" of his life......I actually loved him once many years ago. Maybe God was holding my hand and allowing things to happen to cause us to drift apart. Am I happier now? Heck No but I know I'd be a mess if I had ended up with this man. Don't get me wrong. Some men are wonderful. I don't stereotype them all into the same category. They are one who just seem to lie the most and expect you to believe them!