fitover50

When I was in my teens and twenties, I remember adults (usually my mother, aunt or some other well-meaning individual) giving me advice about this or that. Of course, at that age I still knew everything and people that were thirty, forty or more years my senior were hopelessly old-fashioned. Like most of us, I had to learn life’s lessons through the school of hard knocks. It’s amazing to me how many lessons I learned that actually turned out exactly the way my mother said they would. How could she possibly have known?

Well, today, over 50 myself, and fully aware that I do not know everything, I have finally begun to understand. I often have this little mental fantasy where I have my mother back on this earth with me for one final conversation. I imagine myself saying to her, “you know, Mom, if there’s one thing I’ve come to know in my lifetime it’s that you were right about pretty much everything.”

And then I imagine her reply, “I told you so.”

On this, as on every day of my life, I think about that great lady with love and the joy of knowing I was lucky enough to have had her in my life for thirty-three years.

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