Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Get Over It, by Terry Dart


Kind of cranky sounding. But crankiness can be par for the course when one has gone past middle age. There have to be some perks to the added aches and pains of ageing.

Well, get over that we are older. Our appearance is no longer like the “unearned beauty” of the young. We move slowly, may drive more cautiously and more slowly.

We may not be hell bound to hurry everything we are doing, to rush hither and thither.

We may use such expressions as thither and thither, cool, or far out. We may want you to shut up during the movie. Or, we may talk during the movie. However that would be rogue behavior, since the rude-aged usually have died off before having had a chance to develop a sturdy, consistent rudeness.

Perhaps we elders have things we should “get over,” But at our ages we can forgive ourselves for putting that off.

This is quite brief; even briefer than usual for me. Too bad we aren’t discussing books we have read or poetry or sports or the importance of Mount Rushmore, or the Fourth of July, or current events, or snails, or sea shells, or favorite fonts.

I suppose I will just get over it.

© 2 July 2018


About the Author


I am an artist and writer after having spent the greater part of my career serving variously as a child care counselor, a special needs teacher, a mental health worker with teens and young adults, and a home health care giver for elderly and Alzheimer patients. Now that I am in my senior years I have returned to writing and art, which I have enjoyed throughout my life.

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