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Tara Deacon's avatar

It's never too late I'm 44 and I'm just starting to do some i wish stuff!! 🥰😍🤩 I love that you wrote this and that you are doing your i wish stuff now too!!! Age isn't a factor ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Shalini's avatar

Yes it’s about time I reclaimed my life! Saturn is here to help! 🥂

Tara Deacon's avatar

I'm really happy for you!! There is so much freedom in reclaiming life!! 🥰😍🤩

Stories Sown With Hope's avatar

There is a wisdom that you gain as you get older, a perspective on things that happen or could happen that I wish I had when I was younger.

Yes, I know I missed some things back then, but I had some amazing experiences too. And everything that happened, for good and bad, helps me be a better person now.

I remember at 28 thinking I wish I were grown up, and at 38 thinking I was both too old to start new things and wishing I’d grow up, at 48 thinking now I really am too old and wishing I’d grow up, at 58 I was appalled that I was that old and I wondered when I’d ever feel I’d grown up, now I’m nearing 69 and thinking I’d better be doing things I love doing as time passes too quickly and realizing you never feel that you’ve grown up though your body tells you that you must have.

At every stage, I felt both old (because I’d never been older than the age I was) and inexperienced or unsure as if I was young. I find it interesting to realize.

I think 28, 38, 48, 58, 68 isn’t old at all, unless we decide to make them so. I’m deciding to appreciate, value, and enjoy where I am right now, (even though I have physical problems that come with getting older). The real me isn’t done living.

Shalini's avatar

But thank you for your comment and giving us a peek into your life! It’s so helpful to know we are not alone in feeling what we feel about what we have and what we lost and who we really are behind it all

Shalini's avatar

The problem with me is that I remember being 18 and full of life, then I remember being 25, newly married and then I am suddenly 48 and I wonder where all of it went and I can’t remember the in between. And that’s what bothers me. That’s what makes me desire the life I should have had but never did. It hurts, it pains, it makes me want to right all the wrongs! I don’t know if I can. But I do know God lives. I do feel this was all a test for me and I passed! And God will govern back to me what I lost paid back with interest! And I want to take it back! And I will!