The above bit of wisdom was just conveyed to me by the label on my green tea bag....proof that the universe is always floating serendipitous answers our way if we just pay attention.
Dean went to the Wednesday eve. running group with me this week for the first time for a speed workout. He agrees that it was a blast and, in the long-run, will be very helpful. However, macho man that he is, it bothers him a lot that we are by far and away the slowest ones there; never-mind that we are just starting out again, that he was ill for the past year, and that we have at least 2 decades in age, if not 3 or 4, on everyone else there.
It doesn't bother me. I'm a turtle and I'm proud. The turtle is my totem because, in animal symbolism, it represents patience, longevity, wisdom, protection, stability, creation, strength, endurance, and innocence. The turtle is considered to be the wisest of souls in the animal kingdom. We would all do well to adopt this wisdom and travel at our own pace.
Longevity, endurance, and wisdom are good things. Great things. Mae was right. We're never to old to become younger. To learn. To grow.
And I never compare myself with the other runners there. I compare myself with all the 60 year olds in the world who are not toeing up to the line, who do not have skin in the game, who say "I can't do that." We are faster than them all.
Addendum: That's not to say that I am not human. I have been known to silently mouth "I reeeeaaaly hate you" to the receding back of a fast walker who has passed me as I struggle to jog up a hill. But that person isn't so special: I can walk faster than I can jog, too! For now.
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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