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I Want to Live Life to the Fullest

Time

By: DustintheWind2
Written on May 4th, 2012
When I was a child I always daydreamed and looked beyond my surrounding. I often felt I was not living in the right time, and place, and even felt I was not in the right family. On trips I always wanted to see beyond the next bend of the road, the next mountain, or across the sea. I suppose I have always wanted something just beyond my reach. And the first 40 yrs of my life just didn't fullfill me. Not until I was finally on my own. It was then and only then that I realized all I had missed in the previous years. It was what I really wanted all along. Wrong decisions were made early, and paid for later. And now as I see what could have been then, might never be now, I have to try to live life to the fullest. Can't let time get in the way now, as time is still moving forward.
By: DustintheWind2
Age: 56-60 , Female
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  • jackblasio
    jackblasio

    I felt the same way, as a child, striving, reaching, stretching for things beyond what was "allowed", [and getting smacked for it, too]...living cautiously through my late twenties and thirties, as if I would slide and tumble down that mountain of "bad choices"...as if I couldn't trust who I was...but I always knew I could, I think it was my parents that programmmed me to be so wary of the "world at large"...and like you, after 40, or thereabout, I have learned that I can walk sure-footed in this slippery and volatile world with very few self-induced mishaps....contrary to voices that tried to keep me down....jb....

    Dec 22, 2012
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    • DustintheWind2
      DustintheWind2

      TY for the response, very nice one at that. Its amazing when we realize just how strong we really are. For me, I wish I had been able to use that ability much, much, earlier in life. Would be nice to know what the outcome would have been today.

      Dec 26, 2012
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    • jackblasio
      jackblasio

      Yes indeed...I actually had that very same thought on my own...no kidding...lol...it did come late in life for me, too...I wonder if that's the way it's supposed to be?..or something...You are very "insightful"...thank you...

      Dec 31, 2012
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  • lafsnack
    lafsnack

    Yes its as good as over really isnt it. I tend to feel the same. Underplaying it always seemed to be the safest option in life.

    Oct 8, 2012
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  • uncfred
    uncfred

    Courage to open your door.

    Aug 12, 2012
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  • MorningBreeze
    MorningBreeze

    in my younger years I chased rainbows.... caught a few too! I still do chase those rainbows, at my age ! never too late, always enough time to .. see and feel allll the newness in this world. Time is on your side! ;)

    May 4, 2012
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  • lafsnack
    lafsnack

    A bit like Time in the dark side of the moon album.

    May 4, 2012
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