tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post4420117272307414875..comments2023-10-16T09:05:46.222-06:00Comments on Woman Arising: Spot Ya A Synapse and Raise You one NeuronSherryPeytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-85471261008188771372016-04-29T09:47:46.088-06:002016-04-29T09:47:46.088-06:00Quite the quandry there. ...the vision of shufflin...Quite the quandry there. ...the vision of shuffling along at 80 fills me with dread too. I suppose I can live with stiff joints and old man posture, but slow wit scares me. I can only hope life is interesting enough to keep my mind going, and I hope my thoughts keep up with it long after my body has chosen to crap out on me.northierthanthouhttps://northierthanthou.com/2016/04/21/the-faith-of-christopher-hitchens-in-which-i-read-snake-oil/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-50761204208498768012016-01-11T10:55:24.604-07:002016-01-11T10:55:24.604-07:00I think we all fear getting lost in the routine of...I think we all fear getting lost in the routine of life and then looking up and finding it so far gone....lol....Perhaps that is why I am always looking for something new to master...SherryPeytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-80893397631487802812016-01-10T19:07:39.111-07:002016-01-10T19:07:39.111-07:00I feel the same way, and the reason why I fear end...I feel the same way, and the reason why I fear endless cycles is because I know I'm prone to getting into them.<br /><br />I get into hard routines, and then I look at older people and think,"Oh no. I'm going to disappear down the rabbit hole into a routine and wake up old."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856160423100846727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-67942959469909639852016-01-10T07:42:49.467-07:002016-01-10T07:42:49.467-07:00wow, so glad to know I'm not alone....I found ...wow, so glad to know I'm not alone....I found your remarks about kids eye=opening, because I guess the entire process struck me the same way. It was just a limit on my life that I wasn't willing or ready ever to make. Thank goodness we are a minority or civilization would surely have stopped long ago. Good luck on finding your "winter" home. It's not nearly warm enough here in the winter for me, but I must say, it's more irritating than actually limiting me. I hope others will add their thoughts. We are so unique, yet we share facets of ourselves with others. :)SherryPeytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07239097315957926347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603608065283862695.post-43207358457453444042016-01-09T10:31:15.976-07:002016-01-09T10:31:15.976-07:00Sherry, I totally get what you're saying. I to...Sherry, I totally get what you're saying. I too am a person who hates doing the same thing over and over (having actually worked for Kraft Foods for years, when I had to work on market research to come up with a THIRD repositioning of Fig Newtons in the market, that was when I knew it was time to retire) but at the same time values my routine and hates when it's disrupted. Always dreaded the idea of family/kids (ultimately it was the idea of attending weekend soccer games at 8 a.m. that discouraged me from having kids - see above about disrupting my routine). Love to travel and can't imagine only living in one place. Having said that, my home base has been Norther New Jersey since birth except for 5 years outside of Rochester, NY. I think we are all a paradox of various combinations and it is great to have enough self-knowledge to understand what we need. I am still feeling my way around retirement now that Dear Husband has also retired. We'd like to travel more and live somewhere else in the dead of winter but haven't figured out where yet. And I still want to learn Portuguese - which is hard to do because regular schools don't seem to offer it! We went to adult school once but the guy teaching it wasn't a teacher and didn't know what he was doing. :-)Mauigirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679047602360156407noreply@blogger.com