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I hear myself saying out loud John Stones Jersey , ?it's ok, it is really ok.? It's ok that I am now having a harder time losing 10 pounds, it's ok that I can't remember names as well as I once did. I suppose it's ok that my husband and I no longer have the earning power to make money that we once did.


Change is unwelcome, especially as you get older and yet, change is the only thing in life that is for sure. As we age, I think we are a little reluctant to embrace a different world. Ironically Jesus Navas Jersey , at this age, we are facing the most changes in our life.


Some of the changes that stand out for me are:


(1) Rearing children in a different way.


(2) Marriage is not accepted by everyone in our society. Some prefer to live together.


(3) Even though technology is moving forward, (cell phones, e-mail) I think people are feeling even more isolated.


(4) Many employers shy away from hiring ?older people?, thus making the older population feel unwanted and unappreciated.


Now that I think about it, maybe it's not so much the change itself Jason Denayer Jersey , as the realization that values and memories from childhood are disappearing. That makes us feel invisible. That tears our beloved memories apart, as if it never happened.


Remember your childhood. Remember how safe you felt. We never locked our doors. Doctors made house calls. Dry cleaning and fresh milk was delivered to your door. The grocer in the small town where I came from always let you have groceries, whether you had the money or not. He would keep a running tab but I am sure some of the people could never pay.(I am not suggesting that grocers go by this example now.)


Of course, 50's Music was the best! I don't remember such a thing as an ?R? rated movie. There are times when I feel that God made a mistake and I was supposed to be born in the ?Little House on the Prairie? era. Recently, when my grandchild came to visit, she didn't know what a thermometer was Ilkay Gundogan Jersey , that is not the kind of thermometer I had. She knew what a digital thermometer was. Needless to say, she was confused when I had to 'shake down? the thermometer before taking her temperature.


She also showed me how to open ?child-proof? medicine bottles. When I complimented this six year old child on how great she looked in her aqua tee shirt, she answered, ?only people over sixty use the word ?aqua.? We have a good relationship but I bet she tells her mommy how strange grandmother is at times, especially to use the word, ?aqua.?


I have to turn this around quickly Gael Clichy Jersey , lest you think I am negative and bitter. First of all, if you don't have a sense of humor at this age, you need to get one. Most of the time, I don't REALLY listen to my husband and he doesn't REALLY listen to me. Therefore, we have come to an agreement. Never preface a statement with 'like I said? or ?I guess you didn't hear me but??.?


We have to laugh at some of the things we do or don't do. I think it is funny that we are ?Mommy? and ?Daddy? to our pet dog, Sunny Gabriel Jesus Jersey , I'm sure my grown children think it is funny, too. If you can laugh at yourself and what you are experiencing, you will be a much happier and more age-accepting person.


Besides having a sense of humor, what about the changes I mentioned? Let's look again.


(1) Rearing children in a different way; this isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I see my daughters wisely spending more time with their children versus trying to keep a perfect house all the time. That seemed to be the prize in my younger days. Let's see who can have the whitest diapers (I hung them on the line) or who can do the most. I would sew all our clothes, cook Fernando Jersey , do housework and when taking them to dance or swimming class, I would take some craft work to do while waiting. You know what I wish now? Wish I had watched the classes, did less cleaning and played and read more to my four daughters. I think that my daughters are actually better at parenting than I was. Each generation seems to evolve. In my mother's day, children were seen and now heard? wasn't good. Look how we have improved and evolved.