I find myself firmly planted in middle age, not ready yet to embrace "senior" despite the evidence of my AARP card, and pondering age and ageing. Ageing is more than the passage of time and the sagging of skin and weakening of muscle.
One benefit of the years I've lived is the development of filters. From experience and sometimes painful experience I screen and filter many more people and things than I did when I was 20. I choose whom to associate with and how to spend my time. I decide who will be invited to my hearth and heart. I even have a Christmas filter. I choose what will fill my soul during the holidays and turn away from the shoulds and the musts.
My mom lived to 93 and I wonder if I will reach or surpass that milestone. I seek to nurture curiosity. Remaining curious and questioning maintains mental flexibility and staves off ageing.
My filters protect me and my curiosity stretches me.
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