Has Spring Sprung?

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It felt sooooo good to be out for a walk in the warm sunshine last Sunday that I wanted to dance all the way…there was definitely a spring in my step and my heart was full of joy.

I worked out in my flower beds for the first time too and got some badly needed garden therapy. Boy has my body reminded me this week just how long it’s been since I crawled around on my hands and knees out in the yard! I’m not as young as I used to be.

I have to remember to pace myself more than ever before which doesn’t come easily for me.

It just takes longer for me to do physical things that it once did. I am reminded of this periodically when I want to get more done in a days’ worth of time than I am able to accomplish or end up feeling the physical effects of my doing with sore muscles the next day.

My mind thinks I’m still 21 but my body knows the truth and lets me know it when I choose not to remember that fact.

Perhaps the benefit of working slower is having more of an ability to pause and smell the flowers than I did when I was a young 21 year old “whipper snapper” full of energy and raring to go. There was less pausing to enjoy and savor in the moment back then. After all I had all the time in the world to do that later. I gather this is the later…it just seems to have come awfully fast!

What benefits to growing older do you notice?