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The funny things about getting older, befor you forget - 11/18/2009 7:27:29 PM
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JosephineKerr
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Some times I look in the mirror and have to look again. Then get up close to the mirror and look for the third time. and If that don't work I go to another mirror. And the funnest thing is that they both show the same thing. I face is falling. LOL
Lord you are funny and I love you! LOL
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RE: The funny things about getting older, befor you forget - 11/19/2009 12:42:18 AM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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When I was 38, I wrote a operatic-type song about aging. When I was around 56, I wrote another, which I performed at my synagogue on a "talent night." We all laughed and howled, because aging is, indeed, a joke upon the aging, and we all have to make sure we can laugh about it. I fear that those who cannot laugh will, indeed, weep; and if we weep, we lose.
I was thinking just the other day about my son and daughter who left a family gathering to giggle and question the fact that a female family member allowed the hairs to grow freely upon her jaw and chin. "Why," my son asked, "don't they just pull them out? Or use that cream -- or do something."
My daughter was answering, "I don't know!" as she giggled nervously.
I imposed myself on their conversation, because I knew! And I had no idea if they were talking about me or someone else -- and while I did not ask if they intended me, they were also kind enough not to tell me. "It is because," I told them, "as we age, G-d plays a funny trick on us: our eyesight dims, and we cannot see the hairs. Perhaps it is His kindness, because if we were to stand at the mirror and pull them all out, we would faint with horror before finishing."
Not long later, my daughter had a hysterectomy. We women know what that does to us. Within a year or so, I was riding in her car, and I said, "Honey, you have an inch-long hair under your chin. It's long enough you could probably yank that thing out without tweezers. Horrified, she searched, found it, and that sucker disappeared.
A kind friend will tell. So will a daughter or mother. My husband? He says he can't see them, and I believe him. G-d is kind enough that as one spouse's eyes dim, so do the other's eyes. As one wrinkles, so does the other. As one balds . . . well, we women just hope that this never happens to us and remember to kiss their shining heads for good luck.
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Abiyah, if you had known them as G-d knows them, you would have answered them differently.
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RE: The funny things about getting older, befor you forget - 11/19/2009 9:47:13 PM
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herestoresmysoul
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The pastor of my old church who is about late 40's said he often goes into the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks himself "what is my dad doing in the bathroom?"
I look in the mirror and ask "what is that middle aged woman doing there?"
I'm still wondering too.
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RE: The funny things about getting older, befor you forget - 11/21/2009 10:47:53 AM
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Saltlight_2188
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LOL Memaw! I have thought the same thing myself!
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