Time

Thought – July 16, 2014

How many times have we looked in the mirror lately and we are shocked to have seen how much we have aged.  Many may wish that “time” would turn back the years?  I for one would vote for this if it were to ever become a debatable issue and in my favor. 

Personally, I am not asking “time” to remove all the trials, and the unexpected challenges that I have had to face over the years.  No, I am just asking that it slow down some and if time could slow down, well maybe it would give me back some of the physical things (lost in the aging process) that I haven’t seen since I started the getting older. 

Just for ha ha’s, it would be nice that once we got to a certain point in life, that the gears of time were reversed and we went back in time to where we felt most comfortable.  I remember when life was not so hard to live.  Can you?

I think back to when I was in my middle twenties.  I was single, had my own apartment, and I had a job, a car, and a social life.  I made my own decisions, I had my health, I was energetic, looked forward to adventure, and I thought I knew all there was to know about enjoying life. In a sense, I thought I had it all!  Little did I know!  So if time were to grant me my wish, I would like to go back to where I was still living at home and my parents made my decisions.  This way here, I could blame someone else for my mistakes.  Oh well.

What would you change, if you could turn back the time?  Share your thoughts with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Poem:  “Time”

Let’s demand that “time” turn back her clock instead of moving ahead,

Because as I age, it seems as if my head no longer carries a working brain, but a load of rocks instead.

I can’t seem to remember from one day to the next, what I am supposed to do,

And I can’t seem to remember the things I am NOT supposed do and I get confused!

Hello, although “time” has been good to me for most of my years,

I don’t like the creeping ahead it has been doing, so “time” needs to reverse the going forward gears!

I am pretty content to be where I am at now,

So I wish that “time” would slow down some, or even stop somehow.

I don’t want to sound “delusional” or “crazymanic” when I make this request,

But if “time” could move at a slower pace, I would like this speed the best.

Because I have not kept up with “time” in her moving ahead race,

I need “time” to slow down, so that I can mentally catch up and accept my aging with grace.

And one more request I would like to make at this time if I could,

If “time” could turn back the years, it would also be nice if it would,

And give me back my youthful shape, my memory, my good teeth, my full hearing and eyesight that I seemed to have lost along the way,

Then I could accept it if “time” had to continue to move ahead, as I would have what I needed to continue to enjoy my life anyway!

Jeanne Claire Probst