Wouldn't It Be Great
If We Had A Few Hot Tips Before Every day
An early jump on what's good and what to stay away from
You think we would know by now
Not true
At least for me
I have to learn some of the same lessons
That thought I learned years ago
I don't know if I am forgetting with age
Maybe I am slowing down
Either way I am taking a step back instead of forward
Here are some of the little things I have noticed
Then I will get to the bigger ones later
Eat a good serving of fruits and vegetables every day
The fruits are no problem
I love fruit
Apples and pears and don't forget to pass me those delicious grapes
Vegetables I seem to forget
I try to have a garden salad but I don't think that is enough
It is so easy to slip up
Go for the cookies and the sweets
Then eight hours of sleep a day
Now for years that has never happened
I am lucky if I get five or six hours
More and more I am trying to throw in a half hour cat nap
That will help but not correct the problem
There is not enough time in the day
The list continues
Read a few pages from a book a little every day
I have a new Android phone and it has a lot of cool features
For one thing, it has a nice big screen
Then it has a huge memory
I can go on the Internet real easy
For the longest time
An old flip phone was good enough
I didn't need another gadget
I certainly didn't want to pay over a hundred dollars a month
For a cell phone bill like everyone else
I have found the convenice of the camera alone
Is a great feature
I love taking pictures of everything
Then the battery life lasts so long
The more I use the phone
The less I want to read
Now let us skip over more of the small stuff
Let's go right for the jugular
Exercise is becoming less and less
I get preoccupied with other things
That takes up time
Words that I thought I knew how to spell
Are becoming more and more confusing
Knowledge that I learned way back when
In school, I have to think about
History and geography questions
I had to have known them one time or another
Now it is a little bit fuzzy
I find I stopped making a things-to-do list
Then I have no control
I am all over the place
I am like a car out of alignment
My life keeps on drifting to the left when I want to go straight
Maybe this is just part of getting old
This is new to me
I have never been 56 before
In a conversation, I have said to other people
I am 55
Then after a quick thought
No, I am not
But too late to change it
What will people think?
Here is a guy who doesn't know his own age
Well for all you youngsters out there
Enjoy every day
Make it count
Because one day you may even mix up your numbers
Then catch yourself after
So enjoy the littlest things now
They might seem a lot harder as you age
So this is life
Beautiful and always changing
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