Think about what you've learned in life while I count the blessings of being 59.
I can:
Make a list of the things you've learned in life. Then cheer yourself on.
Go Forty-niners!!
- Feel a sense of peace
- Identify hundreds of individual voices
- Crawl (that takes coordination!), roll, balance and walk
- Distinguish colors and hues (think of all the shades of green in the woods)
- Follow a sound to it's source
- Identify emotions in other people
- Differentiate numbers, letters, symbols
- Know when something is upside down
- Perceive danger
- Appreciate lovely scents
- Feel the mood of the crowd
- Anticipate cold
- Steel myself for pain
- Wait for food
- Smell fire
- Read
- Entertain myself with my thoughts
- Plan ahead to accomplish tasks
- Organize my surroundings
- Drive to a new address
- Feed myself without getting it in my hair
- Clean up a kitchen quickly
- Follow directions
- Wait without having a tantrum
- Sense a need for quiet
- Make unpleasant phone calls
- Talk to strangers
- Create a pleasant atmosphere
- Face a crisis
- Eat something that looks yukky
- Smile when I've been insulted
- Hold my head up when I'm embarrassed
- Tackle a job I don't know how to do
- Look calm when my knees are shaking
- Pretend I'm having a good time
- Say no to someone asking for a favor
- Turn on the computer
- Understand why old people rant about changes in the world
- Remember why young people think they invented the world
- Recall the poetic lyrics to classic songs
- Watch black and white movies without whining
- Wait out a bad mood
- Accept a compliment
- Expect respect
- Laugh at irreverence
- Put financial problems in perspective
- Love others with no expectations
- Let my kids make decisions
- Follow a football game
- Value another opinion
- Discern when a person is genuine
- Choose which traditions I'll follow
- Trust my intuition
- Appreciate old friends, even if I never see them
- Pray with total faith that I'm heard
- Accept that I'm not always right
- Not try to top everyone's story
- Tell the difference between Coke, Diet Coke and Pepsi
- Cry for joy
Make a list of the things you've learned in life. Then cheer yourself on.
Go Forty-niners!!
9 comments:
I learned to love and appreciate my older sister! Have a happy Birthday.
I can do all those except follow a football game. That sport never interested me at all, except when I was in high school and looking for a date.....LOL
GOOD list and very astute observations.
i can't tell the difference between a pepsi and a coke...maybe in 8 more years! hope your day was wonderful...
Happy Birthday, Mom! If ever you forget how to feed yourself without getting it in your hair, I'll take care of you. Love you!
We're glad Amy will take care of you. I'm not sure I want to see you not able to feed yourself without getting it in your hair.
Happy birthday, Oma!
Happy Birthday. Awesome list!
Amen!!! I'm with you on this one!!!
I can tell the difference but I never thought to be grateful for it. Puts perspective on an attitude of gratitude, be thankful for every little thing.
Love, love your list. Thought provoking.
Marty--I just entered my 60th year also. 9-9-49. It was a good year and September is the best month to be born! Some of the finest people I know were born in September--including YOU!
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