They say with age comes Wisdom..

Yeah I think that is the purpose of going through hard times. It's to improve ourselves and not stay as we were our entire lives.

@topffer Sometimes that is what it takes to learn the hard way of things..to suffer through it and come out stronger..

@Susan2015 So true ! I have learned more from these 2 or 3 years of depression/failure than during the 20 years before.

@Rosekitty No kidding Rose yep I am a Young 75 but act and dress younger as why should I act my age, I still like to laugh and have fun as you can tell.

@Marcyaz you are my idol!!

@Marcyaz..are you kidding me...you are 75??..no way..you act like a 30 to 40 yeear old..well now i have something to look forward to my dear!!

@owstalaga laugh lines they are called but i am glad i have them to prove i am happy!

@Rosekitty Haha me to and I have plenty of those laugh lines.

@Rosekitty Laugh lines it is! Oh and because I have that I decided to find something to maybe get rid of it. Facial exercise anyone?

@TLChimes..I think we all have anger in us..hope you can get most of it gone for more happiness..

@TLChimes I will help..

@Rosekitty This is a newer anger and every time I think it has gone back into the it came from... someone does something to open the door on it again. I need a bigger pad lock.

@TiarasOceanView..me too..i guess they say we are developing..hahah

@Rosekitty I am developing into an old miserable bitter biddy. Fine with me.

@TiarasOceanView hahahah..it depends on hat day it is for me..i'm pretty calm but something here just upset me..about Bernie's jokes not being able to tell them like before..oh well..I kinda knew it was coming..

I never did get that saying... I had to search for the meaning. Now I learned something new!

@cmoneyspinner never stupid..only wise

That is the point that a lot of people miss. Knowledge is a fine thing to have but if you don't apply that knowledge in a practical way you will never become wise.

Gerty, you say you lost twenty years, how awful, did you ever find them? Sorry about the family crises but of course we have to do what we are called on to do. Glad at sixty two people do not think you look your age what do they guess your age at?

@GardenGerty..Love that..keeps them guessing on your age..sorry about the family crisis..

@thebeaddoodler ..yes i was the same way..kinda still am, but i also chose this time to be my ME time..thinking of me more than what i can do for others..cause raising 5 children wasn't a picnic

@thebeaddoodler you haven't met my kids..hahaha..no seriously..they are parents now and i say..they will get their turn of what they did to me..hahah

@Rosekitty You are so right about raising 5 children, but I wouldn't take anything in the world for them. They do grow up to be a credit to the time, effort, sleepless nights over decisions etc. that parents go through.

Cynthiann, I am with you on this we do gain experience over the years.I do not know how long I will still have on this Earth but with my medical condition I would be surprised if it is even 5 years but I make the best of it.

@Rosekitty I don't know any other way to be as humor puts a smile on our faces and makes us laugh which we should do every day.

@cynthiann I would never guess by your pic @Marcyaz..told me she was 11 years older than me and i would never have guesses that either..I think it might be our humor that helps!!

@cupkitties..I feel stronger and have a come what may attitude..my character is still there..hhhahah

@Rosekitty , savak03, I love those senior discounts at some stores and restaurants.

@savak03 I agree..senior discounts are wonderful!!

@TexanTornado..and i am glad you are here!!

@Rosekitty Why thank you very much. The feeling is mutual.

@sofssu..good to hear!

Nothing wrong with being mentally changed to be more positive, that is a good way to be even with a few wrinkles coming on.

@Weng0909 ..love being more positive!!

@allknowing...sorry about those things

@inertia4 always good to hear someone is happy as they are now like they were in the past..where though i hope happy comes to you

@inertia4 hhahah..loved the wet fish part..

@Rosekitty Thank you. I never changed. I don't know why though. I guess I know who I am. That might be it. I remember when I was married, my now ex always complained that I was too childish. How i don't know. I worked and did what I needed to do as an adult. But I would play my music and sometimes act like a child. big deal. We all have to have fun. She was like a wet fish.

@jstory07..Now it is your Me time

@LadyDuck ..I know i had more fun 30 years ago..can't do things i did back then but i can dream..hahah

@simone10..yes menopause did it to me too

@simone10 sorry to hear that..my mother and aunts were from the time where they just gave hysterectomies at a certain age so i never knew when menopause would come ..silly me never asked my older sisters.so when it came i thought i was dying..doctors were no help..(men)..so i went home and looked things up..stopped bleeding after almost a month and i never bled since..i was 48 and now 64 so i was relieved of that..pheww..hated that..hahah..and now i see my 42 1/2 oldest daughter acting kinda like i did so i hope she remembers me telling her what is coming? never did get hot flashes thankfully..so you must have been panicky..glad you are better now

@Rosekitty It was horrible for me. I know some women who just breezed past it but it mess up my emotions so much that at one point I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown.