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Buon compleanno!
Please take care of yourself, Alison!! We are so delighted to see you back here.charliechaplinfan wrote:Thank you everyone. It's just like me to be late to my own birthday![]()
I want to go back to Italy, wow Vittorio Gassman and Charles Boyer voice, it's made me come over all giddy.
We had a lovely time, the weather was better than here but that couldn't have been difficult. Along with Lake Garda we saw Milan, Venice, Mentua, Bologna, Otzi the iceman, the Ferrari musuem and Parma. So I'm tired now.
No, thank goodness, I do not feel as though I am in my 20s and glad of it. I am not sure if it is just me, but when I look back on that overly serious doofus I was then, gratitude for the more relaxed, less anxious and worried me who exists now floods through me. Sure, there are trade-offs, and getting older can be annoying as hell. Yet, it's easier to express so many things without worrying too much what others think constantly as I once did. I notice things such as the change of seasons, enjoy the arc of life that I can trace in my contemporaries and younger people, and just keep trying to keep learning as life goes on. Clichéd as it may sound, "it's all good," especially when I appreciate the perspectives gained (that latter part is the trickiest for all of us, I suspect!).charliechaplinfan wrote:And now I have a question. Does everyone still feel like they are in their 20s and are just amazed at how the years have racked up? I can't be 42, I'm not grown enough I'm sure.