When Your Head Spins On A Dime
I Remember It Differently
Life goes on
Things that use to be are no longer
As we get older
The past comes back to haunt us
Old injuries may resurface to become new ones
We are back to square one
My right knee gave out
I had trouble walking
I worked in the yard
i dug up a little spot of old lawn
To put in a little garden area
It gets some sun
There is a tree blocking some light
I might have to cut back
I remembered some of the old exercises I am suppose to do
I honestly don't do them like I should
Life gets busy
I remembered my physical therapist told me
I don't drink enough water
I only had three bottles all day
It was hot outside
In an instant
My life has changed once again
It's not even five o'clock in the morning
Our cat Charlotte woke me up
She was clawing at a bag under our bed
When I got up to see she was doing
She was standing there in the middle of the hall
What did i do?
It wasn't little old me?
As I looked around
i did not see anything out of place
Could I have imagined it
No it couldn't be
Work today hopefully
I hobbled across the kitchen
Trying to stretch out my back
We will see if it works
Only time will tell
Google came up with other old expressions or idioms
Not the one I remember
Maybe old age has a way of distorting the truth
What we think happened didn't
Maybe someone over the years changed what they heard
Making it a classic case of bait and switch
(lol)
I keep thinking back
Clearing out the old cobb webs of my brain
i still remember the line my way
It is funny how little things can mean so much
I heard lots of expressions from my dad and mom growing up
They were corner stones of my learning
Not from school
The home of Fort Knox
What my parents told you was more valuable than gold
I combination of school and street knowledge
What they told you
You had better listen
Or else
You never wanted to see what else meant
Just say your in big trouble
Not for a day or two
For life
Both of my parents have been gone for years
My dad since 1991
My mom since 2012
I still listen to the words they told me
As if they are going to show me
What are you doing?
Didn't I teach you better than that?
Their voices are still in my head
Alive and well
To the day I die
Good or bad
It has served me well in the past
Even though times have changed
My values have stayed the same
For better or worse
Till death do we part
Crazy huh?
That is life
A little bit of the norm
A little bit of the unexpected
The good that we have learned
Then a whole lot of nothing
That we have no choice but to let it all go
It serves us no good
There are things that just happen
There is no where to file
Dip six the bull shit
The aggravation that drives you crazy
You will be alright
You have no choice
if you want to survive
If not the world will eat you alive
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