Not Everything Is Defined by Age

As a child, I knew no limits, setting out on adventures with never a fear for how I’d find my way back home.

Now, nestled in my home, I limit myself to certainties, fearful of risks.

Some days, I wonder about that child, and how it would feel to wander freely, and it makes me smile.

The body may be hindered, but the imagination remains forever young.

(Post originally appeared on One Woman’s Quest II, May 2022)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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  5. I’ve recently been thinking about that too…even in my 20s I was pretty fearless (or stupid maybe). Not anymore. When did I become afraid? But we can always dream ourselves anywhere. (K)

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  9. Sometimes, I have to remind myself it is my imagination spurring me on when the reality comes to light that what once was is not quite what is! lol

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