TYPICAL DAY

                                        TYPICAL DAY?

                                                                            

DO ALL TYPICAL

DAYS START

LIKE THIS ????

I wake up and turn over and pull up the quilt under my chin. I am not sure I want to get up? I think it is too darn cold! However I know a new day has started so I must do my routine. I make sure both feet are set firmly on the floor. I head for the shower, which used to take 15 minutes but now takes a half hour or more. I get dressed-about an hour. I make my bed-20 minutes. I try to decide what to fix for breakfast-20 minutes. I then fix breakfast-it could be anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour, but usually about one half hour. I eat breakfast- 10 minutes and I am ready to face the day. OR AM I?

I try to remember what my USUAL DAY is like? It usually consists of checking the phone to see if anyone has called. Then I check the computer and the Android to see if have been checked up on? All that done I read the newspaper, but I really did not have to because it is just like yesterdays, with a few names and places changed. (How ever I really have to check and see if there are any "dead people" there that I know?)

Then I take my meds being very careful to be sure and take the one that causes me to go to the bathroom and then I am careful to be sure and take the one that stops me from going to the bathroom?? I think to myself "couldn't I just not take either one of them and that would balance things out"? I suppose not that would be to easy.

Well by now my day is more than half over and I don't feel like I have accomplished much. Should I take a nap or should I let the positive side of my brain take over? I think to myself- My sister may call and want to do lunch where we eat, visit and reminisce. We always enjoy that (In fact the food seems to take a back seat to the visiting.)

Then the thought pops in my head--If I take a nap and do not go out, who will "pay off" the  kids in a restaurant when they get $1.00 for having good manners and being polite? That is a fun thing I started doing several years ago when I was traveling a lot, and I still do it. It is fun to see the big smile that comes on the kids face when they each get $1.00 which is all their own. And the look on the Mom or Dad's face is sometimes more fun to watch than the kids.

If I take a nap now who will smile at the 7-11 workers and tell them Merry Christmas. Who will help the older ladies get their groceries in the trunk of their car and the shopping cart back to it's stand? Who will write my grand kids and give the "sage advice" from an old Grandpa? If I nap all day will someone else do those things? Then I realize some people are depending on the "tender mercies" of life done through people like me?

After this short spurt of thought my mind really gets going and I recall asking a lady at the hospital if it was OK to tell her I liked her dress? She got tears in her eyes and said, "Oh yes, no man has ever told me that before." Now at this point I thought "I could be thought of as a masher" (a Masher is a word from MY generation.)

Now I am thinking of how it is the small everyday things we do that really makes people happy. We do not know their problems and we do not know their trials, but I do know that a smile and a kind word usually gets the same thing in return.

I suppose by now you have figured out I like people and I love my family. People not so much in big bunches but one on one or a few at a times works for me. At least then I can hear what they have to say. Ha Ha--( I wear hearing aids- and others that do, will know what I am talking about.)

After my mind processed all this stuff an amazing thing came to mind. "People depend on me!" It is amazing what a positive attitude will do.

No nap for me today, maybe I can help someone be happy and they can do the same for me. In fact not just today but many, many more days. No nap for me I am going out among the "folks."

I can smile and talk to them as friends and family. I can give them a hug (I am not a masher) I truly love my family and friends and especially this time of year.  From Halloween to New Years Day was my wife's special season and I am glad some of it has rubbed off on me.

I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving, A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

TOUCHE (my signature name for the people I love.)