Happy 2022!!

Two things usually cross our minds on New Year's Eve/Day :  What did we learn this year?  and what do we hope for in the new year?  I was thinking about these two things today.  What did I learn?  That I'm not as young as I used to be.  When I fell back in Feb, while it was my arm that was the immediate pain, other pains surfaced later, which tells me that my body doesn't recup itself like it used to when I was younger! Then when I was at Mom's during her breakdown in Oct, I realized that caring for an aging parent isn't very easy to do.  They were the adult, you were the child, and "you're never too old to do what your mother tells you."  But there's a tipping point and you have to be the adult because they're behaving like a child!   Which gave me insight into the next few years as well, and I'm not sure I'm looking forward to it.   And will apologize to my daughter now for what's to come in my future!!!  :/

I learned or maybe came to the conclusion that I'm ready to retire, mentally.  But monetarily I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing.  I learned that I have less patience with people in general, and even less patience with people who don't seem to have any common sense .. or is it brains?   I learned that while I'm doing a job that doesn't thrill me any longer, I can keep at it by having mental short term goals, taking it one day at a time.   I learned that I can still challenge myself to do something and stick with it.... when it's something that interests me.  lol  And I learned that what's important isn't *things*, it's people.

What do I hope to achieve in the upcoming year?  To do things that please me; to take care of my health and home; and maybe even to think up a few new self challenges.  Oh, and to take more pix and paint more rocks.  lol 

When it comes to taking care of our health, we naturally care more when given a bad or scary prognosis from our doctor.  What if we stepped up and starting doing things that are good for us now instead of waiting until there's a problem??  That's one thing I'm going to focus on, taking time to do the things that are good for me and my health.  We all need time to relax, and we all need to take the time to do something that's good for our body by exercising.  The question I'll be asking myself is this:  Is it more important to have a floor that's vacuumed or to take that 15 minutes and take a walk instead??  At my age when you're still working full time hours, there are only so many hours in a day.  Why should chores be more important than our health?  

So, here's to 2022! May it bring health and happiness to each of you! 

I'm sure once I figure out what my next challenge will be, I'll let you know! 

Bright blessings!