About Old Curmudgeons

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 I’m too old to be neurotic.  I used to care if few read my blog post, but one day no one read it and you know what?  I didn’t care.  I’m too old to worry about what people think.  I’ve had two brushes with death and I realize life is too short to be neurotic.  My wife wasn’t crazy about my Facebook avatar of the Four Horsemen from  Revelation and I told her I didn’t care.  I was going to use them anyway.  

I’m at the point where I just don’t care.  I really don’t.  I’m a firm believer in balance.  Always enough but not too much.  Even no one reading my posts is balance.  Why?  Because in all I do it’s about balance.  There is even balance in my message of both Love and Peace.  Jesus says if you’re not accepted move on.  One can only do so much.  This is my philosophy for living.  

Move on.  Do what you do and move on.  If no one reads my posts, I’ll do better and just keep doing what I’ve been doing.  It’s my best whether I write for no one or just for myself.  I’m just too old to worry about what people think including what my wife thinks.  I’m also too old to be jealous of what others have that I don’t have.  Jealousy is ugly and is anything but a peaceful emotion.  I’m too old to even be jealous.

In fact I just might be a cantankerous curmudgeon, but my wife assures me I’m not.  I’m getting up in years, but I’ve decided to just focus on Love and Peace, including love and peace for myself.  Even if no one knows who I am, I really don’t care.  It is often said the older a person gets the more alone they are.  I just won’t worry about it.  The world is too big to be centered on the self.  Fortunate for me I don’t have a lot of health issues except my heart.  It limits me in the things I’d like to do.  

I’d like to train for a marathon, but I can’t.  In fact too much stress could kill me.  I’m limited by my heart.  But that doesn’t mean my heart can’t love.  In fact, my heart can do things now I wasn’t able to do prior to my experience with the Divine.  My Spirit Guides protect my heart from any emotional damage it could have.  But cantankerous old curmudgeons don’t have very good hearts.  Love never ceases to amaze me.

So, instead of my being a cantankerous old curmudgeons I have decided to make the best use of my heart regardless of how damaged it might be.  Some hearts are fully functional but are stone.  I prefer mine to be the opposite.  If I felt my smoking a pipe was hard on my heart, I’d quit right now.  But pipe smoking lowers my BP and helps keep me relaxed.  This morning it is my Dunhill with Lane 1-Q and my coffee this morning is Manatee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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