Aging process is now slowing me down via /r/gratitude

SLOW DOWN!

I believe that is what the Universe is telling me as have gotten older and time has caught up with this aging body that – for the life of me – can’t physically handle everyday chores and activities I routinely completed some six months ago.

Slow down. Yes, you are getting tired when you ascend the steps to get into your Conshohocken home and then many more steps to get to your second-floor bathroom and/or main bedroom. So, take a break. You have nothing to prove or to “carry-on” as us veterans used to say while serving in the military.

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Covid struck me just about six months ago and I ain’t been the same since. I questioned my doctor and other physician assistants but none believe I got what is called long-term Covid. It’s could just be the allergies I have as well as the general aging process that us turning age 76 must face.

I was so proud of myself walking 10,000 steps a day and even got awarded with money from two different study groups. The watch I wear daily was also gifted me for providing all the necessary body information medical investigators were looking at and comparing to other persons.

All of a sudden, I had to cut my steps to 4,000 a day and I have not been in my local gym called the Fellowship House since that day. Of course, the weather was much better and I could walk outdoors but now I will have to return and imply slow down the exercise routine.

I have driven less over the past months but attend the Senior Center of Upper Merion Township two and sometimes three days a week. No one has noticed anything about my more relaxed actions and I continue to joke around and have fun without any type of slow down.

But, I am going to accept the fact that the aging process causes such slow downs and I will learn to live with it. For at least two years. You see, both my mother and father – who married when they had a 20-year-age difference – died at the age of 78. It could be genetic that I not only slow down but come to a complete stop.

That’s one of the reasons I write Blogs like this. Family members reading ‘em may not get afraid of slowing down as I recently felt.