Life Has a Way of Making Us Sit Up And Take Notice

Getting older is not for sissies

How many times have you said the above sentence about getting older is not for sissies?

We make it through something hard but come out on the other side of that with a renewed interest in living a better life!

I hope you are living your life with purpose!

My other wish for you is that you are being and learning what is most important.

Gather your friends and hold them in high esteem. They have chosen you also to be a friend of theirs. That is high praise, in my opinion.

Yesterday, I attended a “Celebration of Life” of a very close friend, one of my husband’s and mine who passed away at too early an age.

We have known her since early school days and that means sixty (60) plus years. We ate dinner out or at one of our homes, traveled to events and vacations with them almost weekly for many years. They were present at many of our family events, and we were at theirs.

Be sure to let them know you treasure the friendship and all it takes is a short phone call just to say and ask, “I was thinking of you. How are you doing today?”

Take inventory of what you consider important!

Each morning when you start, do you sit with a cup of coffee? Are you watching television, or reading a book, or like me on the computer?

I’m an artist, writer, tennis player, and gardener, and I love my family and friends. I love looking around in an antique mall with my family and friends and have done so almost all my life. They are made more special because of involving my family and friends. Even more, is I love being involved in what they enjoy also.

Over the last twenty years, we have spent a week at the beach with my friend and her husband. We have laughed, and we have cried. I am so glad we took the time to do these things. Life has been good because of them.

Yes, we have to do things to live this kind of life, like work to make enough money to have a place to live, provide for our family, and do things we enjoy. But remember, there is no better part of our life than time spent with our family and friends.

I’ve lost several family members over the last few years, and now a couple of friends. It stops me and makes me think to call a friend or relative that I have not spoken to lately. It lets them know I care!

How are you living your life? It is not all about you; you know!

Over the last few years, I have been studying and thinking loads about positivity, mindfulness, stoicism and curiosity, and creativity because I am an artist. I started about four years ago writing a book about “being an artist.” I believe it has helped me become a better person and a better friend.

I’ve been told I am a very intense person. I took that comment as a bit negative at the time. I’m not so sure it really is. Maybe I was using my intensity in the wrong way at times.

But, you know what? I think I have always lived my life very interested in all that is going on around me. Maybe that is what intensity means to me.

I looked up the word. “Intense” is an adjective. I read that the second meaning was “having or showing strong feelings or opinions; extremely earnest or serious.” Okay, that really does sound like me.

How is this important to my topic?

I feel things intensely, no matter what it is. I think it is a good thing, but maybe I need to know how to temper my intensity for each individual.

My friend that passed this week loved me no matter what. She knew how to be a friend to me. I hope I have learned through her friendship of almost 60 years to be a good friend to others. My family members also need me as a friend.

What will you take away from this post?

My hope for you is to decide to call a friend you have not talked to lately or a family member!

Just let them know you have thought of them. It will make their day.

Have no agenda other than that!