Today a Special Date for me

A Special date.  Today is the absolute last time I will be able to say I am 61 years old.  Now that I am in my later years I realize the importance of such a date.  We all, when we are younger seem  to be hurrying the hours to go by, so that big date of a new age is upon us.  Well, I for one have realized, hey, you have a whole year to celebrate that age what about the age you are leaving behind never to experience it again anyway not in this life time.  It's not that I don't want to get old.  I'm not one of those people who cringe at the thought of gray hair (mine is white) or who count the wrinkles on the face.  Unless of course you would like to hear about my neck.  I mean what is up with women's necks as they age.  Not all of them it seems.  It's hard to look in a mirror sometimes.  Sometimes, ha, how about every time I look in the mirror all I see is this strange thing below my chin, or should I say chins.  I mean come on, it's bad enough that we have to age and now more than ever watch what goes in our mouths but to put this horrible excuse for a neck in plain site is just a bad, bad joke.  Of course I try to hide it behind scarfs.  Yes, most of the time (I hope anyway) I am able to just look fashionable with my flowing scarf blowing in the breeze.  Sometimes it blows too much and. "OH, NO, well you know what I am getting at.  I am determined to fix it, lose it, or just continue to hide it.  Now getting back to celebrating today, the date of March 8.  It's the last time I will be 61 and it does make me sad to be leaving it behind.  I can't really say anything major or really exciting happened this year to mark it's passing.  Just that I can no longer state, that is after tonight at midnight that I am 61.  You know we could turn the numbers around and say I'm 16.  Now wouldn't that be a kick, being 16 again.  After half a second thinking about it,  NO, No thank you.  Yes, it would be good to do over some things but I don't think you can pick and choose which things you would like to do over.  I'm mean lets face it, it just wouldn't work and besides who says it would be better.  Maybe it would be a whole lot different and just maybe it would be a whole lot worse.  I am pretty happy with where I am right now.  I like, no let me say I love my life right now, right at this moment and I wouldn't want to change a thing (well, maybe a few things) but on the most part nothing.    I just want to try and remember this day and think back over this year and remember some of the things, maybe not headline worthy, but things I did do this year to remember and celebrate. 
I just hope somehow this year I helped someone and didn't even know it.  That's the best, I think.  Just for the rest of the evening I will celebrate life, my life and hope and pray for the following year to stay as happy as I am now.  Keep smiling, and hope who I'm smiling at gives it back.  Sometimes that is all any of us need is for someone to give us a smile.  A warm smile, that says, "Hey, I see you there and want to wish you a very good day".  You know the smile I'm talking about.  Not the one the clerks, checkers, sales person gives you with there bleached white teeth that are so abnormal and odd it's frighting.  They do not even look you in the eye as you purchase your items but those teeth are shining bright.  It's even hard to get anyone to look you in the eye anymore.  It use to be if you pulled into a parking space and someone was sitting in the car next to you, it was automatic when you got out of your car you said, Hi, or How are you , or something to acknowledge that a person was sitting there, you saw them and gave them a greeting.  Now, oh my God, people are almost afraid to even look there way let alone say something.  It's strange, very strange.  I could go on and on about this but I won't tonight.  I will continue this at a later time because for the rest of this evening I am celebrating my last day of being 61.  Tootles