Observations on Growing Older

~Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them

...but your grandchildren are perfect!

~Going out is good.

Coming home is better!

~When people say you look "Great"...

They add "for your age!"

~When you needed the discount, you paid full price.

Now you get discounts on everything...

Movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them.

~You forget names ... But it's OK

Because other people forgot

They even knew you!!!

~The 5 pounds you wanted to lose

Is now 15 and you have a better chance

Of losing your keys than the 15 pounds.

~You realize you're never going

To be really good at anything .... Especially golf.

~Your spouse is counting on you

To remember things you don't remember.

~The things you used to care to do,

You no longer care to do,

But you really do care that you

Don't care to do them anymore.

~Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair

With the TV blaring than he does in bed.

It's called his "pre-sleep".

~Remember when your mother said,

"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"?

Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!

~You used to say,

"I hope my kids GET married...

Now, "I hope they STAY married!"

~You miss the days when everything worked

With just an "ON" and "OFF" switch..

~When GOOGLE, ipod, email, modem ...

Were unheard of, and a mouse was something

That made you climb on a table.

~You used to use more 4 letter words ...

"what?"..."when?"... ???

~Now that you can afford

Expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere.

~Your husband has a night out with the guys,

But he's home by 9:00 P.M. Next week it will be 8:30 P.M.

~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it.

~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!

~What used to be freckles are now liver spots.

~Everybody whispers.

~Now that your husband has retired ...You'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet ...2 of which you will never wear.

~~~~But old is good in some things:

Old songs,

Old movies,

And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!

Love you, "OLD FRIEND!"

Sent by Prakash Bhartia.

When I play with my grand children, I feel the best part of growing old and handing over the batton to your children, is having grand children.
You never enjoy the growing up of your own children for then you are busy, earning your living and carrying out your responsibilities.
But with grand children you are free, unencumbered with burden of earning and responsibility. That has now shouldered by your children.
This is when you watch every step of their growth, their crawling on their knees, their staggering attempts to walk and then run, their lisping tattle and continuous questions and their innocent, selfless hugs.
I feel having grand children and enjoying their company is the bonus God gives us for being good during our working lives.
THANK YOU GOD!!