What were your parents doing at your age?
My parents were already retired and about to embark upon a decade worth of travel mostly to New Zealand, where they would eventually spend their winters .
This is the year I turn 60, and unlike my parents, the year I realize that plane travel is not likely to happen again . There will be no cruises as I have horrible motion sickness. The most I can hope for is a car trip or two, and it’s hard to get excited about that . I’m very lucky to live where I do, but I’ve always had wanderlust that will now have to go unsated. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see all of the places I wanted to before becoming disabled, and that’s just another disappointment I will have to deal with.
The reality is that I’m more disabled than I think I am, and while I’m still seeing small improvements, they aren’t things that change how much energy I can expend daily without becoming exhausted. Even a trip to Vancouver needs a full day of recovery before we get out in the city. The 90-minute ferry ride over takes that much out of me.
So I’m just going to have to learn to enjoy seeing the occasional show,having dinners out from time to time,and a car trip to places I’ve seen too many times already.
The good news is that I can focus on writing, one of the only joys that my stroke didn’t take from me. Because if I’m not living in the solution, I’m not living.
I used to daydream about going places. But even a 30-monute ride to the doctor and back is exhausting. I feel you.
I knew you would 😊