On the Horizon

So I turned 60 years young this year and that gets one thinking.

I finally made it to a knowledgeable place in my life where I can say and actually mean what I say is of value!

For example, I am experienced now so I can tell you to F'off knowing you are not fully understanding this 60 year old woman's concerns, needs, or cares; you are young and ignorant...not stupid, but you have not done your research as I have.

I am still teaching and am loving it more than when I started. 

Why? well there are times in ones life where you wished you could do, or wished you had said, done, been around there, etc. My teaching career began later in life and I know now I was an ignorant youngin' so the only way I attained my master's Degree was to be a bit more mature, which I was and did.

Through the years I have trained, experienced, developed education knowledge and Hallelujah! I actually retained the information, the experiences, the trials and tribulations.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime. To learn everyday and then to teach not just young people but to mentor like minded adults is something I never thought I'd be a part of. A handful take me seriously, sorry if the others do not.

I was born the youngest of 5 children to two dedicated parents. My older siblings never were allowed to be the baby-sitter no they were allowed to be my sibling, my friend. But they played that out their own way. For some reason my siblings created a hierarchy level of privileges and I was the pheasant, last in line. I couldn't possibly be able to do the things my siblings did, I was the last in youngest!

Oh, I accepted my fate in the lineage as it suits me well today. I prefer time alone over crowded family get-to-gathers, but I also attend them as often as I can (minus my marriage episodes), I just am grateful when it is over.

My parents were fun-loving people. Mom was a playful parent, I have great memories of her on the floor playing with me and decades later doing the same with my children. She told me of her childhood times of setting out ALL of her dolls and playing with them as she was nearly an only child so these dolls were her friends. 

My upbringing was opposite that. 

Isn't that how evolution rolls; we want our offspring's life to be opposite ours, for some odd reason we wish more for them when we did just fine.

I am an educator, not a genius, 

to date a lot of students in my path have taught me much more than I could have imagined and continue to do so, like two days ago a 5th grader brought to my attention something in the mathematical field, of course and i was thrilled that I learned something more that day.

THAT is what life is about, I see this now. 

As if you cannot accept the suggestions of others than who the hell do you think you are? Certainly not a monarch, have you researched their history? Oh, lord!! 

No we are humans with brains that function in a complex manner we are STILL learning about that. So eat clean, exercise, laugh and be well.

Today I am at a place in my later years that Abraham Maslow would state is nearing the top, that is to say, self-actualization and nearing transcendence the final aging level before a peaceful (God willing) death.

I am self-sufficient, most of the time, except I need a 20 foot ladder to change my smoke detector and need an extra hand to hang up my pictures and curtain rods. 

I have a retirement that begins next month AND I get to double-dip since I am an able body person whose brain functions fairly well to date. So on the horizon, I will be investing, working, spending, living, laughing, loving too, or I'll rest and relax at my whim!

Prayer please as I continue to live my way until I no longer can, my children are prepared for this I'm imagining.

On the horizon is time, patience, well maybe at times patience as it came into play, but the idea that I am taken seriously by my colleagues and my customers is all one can ask for. 

Most currently, by my siblings and children as well...they are working on that...

I have achieved this through nothing more than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.