Yesterday while eating a favorite fast food, I read a Dove dark-chocolate thought for the day: “Keep life moving forward; looking backward is only for time travelers.” It reminded me of advice from an older gentleman who taught, “Don’t look back — only forward.” (He had a lot of sadness in his past and present life.)
We know time travel is “the action of traveling through time into the past or future.” I often go back to learn, preserve history, and share with loved ones. It’s a different mindset. Today I look backward at my first 12 months of life in this apartment community — unlike any other I’ve experienced. Management does a great job with the owner’s mandate to make us seniors smarter, stronger, and more socially active. Meals in the dining room and activities in the social room help. ( I keep moving by running up stairs.) However, I look forward to time alone for completing my projects, pausing, and pondering the future.
At the present, I feel very blessed to have my forever companion Kay and our family. We are all time travelers with sweet, recurring memories of her loving service to hundreds, and thoughts about seeing her again. “There is no end to what we can do together” ... with love.
