The older I get the better the days, months, years,decades get!
By GreatMartin
@GreatMartin (23670)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
May 29, 2019 4:36pm CST
I don't know exactly when it happened but I think it was the day I retired--I stopped worrying!!!
Just a couple of years before that I wasthisclose to being homeless and with some help from some friends plus Perry telling me about what had happened to him, on June 1, 1999, I moved into the Gateway apartments, which was a turning point in my life. Now I am starting my 21st year here, 15 of them in this apartment, the longest I have ever spent in one place.
Yes, I've been sick, starting with congestive heart failure New Year's weekend 1999-2000 and I am limited in how far I can walk without pain and I take 14 pills (including 2 inhalers) a day--have had an aorta valve replacement and I could go on--so what?
I am surrounded by beauty, Mother Nature outdoing herself constantly and I have everything I need. Okay, not everything I want but, again, so what?
Just let me wake up every day and I have it made!
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
19 Jun 19
Finding a place that is home is so important in making our life better. I am so glad you have found your home and are content and enjoying your retirement. None of us has everything we want but that is just part of life. I figure if I wake up, have people I love, a roof over my head on food on the table, life is good!!
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
19 Jun 19
You want too much!! I just want to wake up everyday--I can get the rest if I do that! 
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@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
30 May 19
I am glad you are at a content phase of your life.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1 Jun 19
I have always been even in the bad times!!
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!@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
30 May 19
I've always had a good life even when it was bad--all added up to the way I feel today!
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
4 Jun 19
Many feel this way @GreatMartin
You have a great outlook! Maybe that is why why your are GREAT Martin.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
3 Jun 19
@GreatMartin I also have trouble with the past. How do you just live day to day when all this other stuff fills your mind?
@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1 Jun 19
Whenever you decide to!! All worrying is is spending time in the future which prevents you from living today!! :O)
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 May 19
As long as the sun shines for me every day or even the rain falls hey, I am alive and so there is plenty more living to do. The best thing is to enjoy every day.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1 Jun 19
That's my life--enjoying every day!
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1 Jun 19
Living in a community of seniors where if you don't see someone for a few days you are afraid to ask about them each minute of my life is fun even when pain comes!! :O)
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
1 Jun 19
@GreatMartin We lost a few this year, all under 60. It was a shockeroo. Keep enjoying life and ignore the pain.
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