I have always appreciated the fact that I live in a fairly moderate climate that goes through a cycle of seasons. I am grateul for all of the cycles as any one of them helps me to appreciate the others more. Often that cycle of seasons has been used as a metaphor for life. If that were the case you would probably agree that I am entering the autumn of my life. I find that thought just a little disconcerting because depending on your specific beliefs, life, unlike the weather, does not have a spring to follow winter, which of course follows the afore-mentioned autumn. Despite that, I accept the vague melancholy that seems to come to me at this time of year as it encourages me to take stock of just where I'm at in life.
So without further ado, here are the top 10 ways you can tell that you are entering the "autumn of your life".
Number Ten!
....You are as happy to sleep in a bed with your grandson as with your wife!
9) You can not sleep at night, but you sure can during the day!
8) You go to bed earlier and get up earlier, and furthermore you like it that way!
7) You physically count your teeth on a regular basis!
6) You no longer eat pizza, and 2 beers is about your limit!
5) You have given up trying to pluck out your grey pubic hairs!
4) You search for stuff in the top drawer of your toolbox by feel, because you can no longer see into it!
3) You only eat ice cream after sex because that sharply reduces your intake of fat calories!
2) You have learned to stand up very slowly, and to sit down very quickly!
....and the number one way you can tell that you have reached the "autumn of your life"...
You accept that no matter how many "last shakes" you give it before you tuck it back in, that there will always be one dribble left for the inside of your pants!!!!
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."---Stanley Horowitz
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."---Robert Browning
Love
Peter
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