I was chatting online tonight with a new friend. She is a woman of my generation, just one year younger. What is so fascinating about her is that we seem to have had many of the same experiences both when we were young and growing up in the sixties and seventies and in our adult lives.
What is encouraging is that we both seem to have the same outlook on life. Just cause we are getting older doesn't me we need to act like old folks. We are both dismayed at how some people we know who are in their sixties act like they were in their nineties. She was chuckling about how one guy sent her a picture of his home complete with white picket fence, neatly mowed lawn and a wishing well - all his pride and joy. Now there is nothing wrong with a well groomed yard - just don't make it the highlight of your life.
I would prefer to send a picture of me trudging through a jungle or swinging on a rope getting ready to fall into some tropical gorge. I am not ready to get old yet and fortunately neither is she. So next weekend I will be off to visit her in Edmonton to see if the connection we feel online and on the telephone is even better in person.
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