After driving up from Kentucky where we were involved with a game, we arrived here in Cinncinnati at 1 AM, got something to eat and then turned in at about 2:30 AM. I had a nice rest and then was up at 6 this morning for a short run in a cool misty rain. I ran mainly across the campus of the Univ of Cinncinnati and enjoyed the rolling hills there. My broadcast partners took off for the day to do a casino run on the river while I stayed behind. I did another short work out at the hotel fitness center, and am now enjoying a little NFL football on the TV. Pizza became my Thanksgiving dinner
It looks like several of you had nice Turkey Day runs. I had planned to run in a local one at home, but this trip knocked me out of being able to do that.
I have enjoyed the varied comments about the thankful days that we have at this stage in life and with this Boomer group of runners in particular. I especially noticed Steve's note about being thankful for his mother being with them to celebrate Thanksgiving which obviously is wonderful. I also enjoyed BTY's comments about life now being better and the need of encouraging young people about a brighter future. I had never quite thought of it that way, even though I have always been in agreement with that thought
It is all about perspective really isn't it? I mean, there are areas in which a teenager IS at the best time in their life. Their health is usually perfect, they have energy to burn, they live with no fear of losing their job, they appear at the meal table with no concern for either paying for it or preparing it. LIfe is great for a teen. However, it can be said that it is a life of "the best of times while being the worst of times". Peer pressure, concern for the future, raging hormones, and other such problems are real for them.
Early adulthood is similarly good and bad, with the advent of fresh love, the start of a family, the freedom gained as an adult and the opportunitites of climbing in the job arena. Meanwhile, it is learning about each other as a couple (often with tears and fights), learning to be a parent, facing bills for the first time and all of this with the limits of being on the bottom of the pay scale.
These "good and bad" differences follow us all of our lives. Each stage has some very real negatives, but they also have wonderful aspects that allow us to view them as the "best years of our lives".
At this Boomer stage we have some wonderful things to be thankful for........home, jobs, health, children, grandchildren, a land of opportunity, freedoms, experience, and the such that makes these days really wonderful. Are there negatives? Oh yes, but I won't bother to try and list them because human nature allows us to be reminded of them regularly without my help. However, I am thankful that these things are now handled from a point of experience and personal strength as in no other stage in life.
Maybe after all is considered, the best handle we have for dealing with life is perspective. At this age, we have a greater appreciation for many things because of the perspective we have from experience. Without a proper view on things, we miss many great opportunities and don't enjoy some wonderful days.
For each of you who post each day, I am thankful for YOU. It is in the daily reading of your words that so much of my perspective is arrived from.
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