Would I want to be in my teens again?

Would I want to be in my teens again? This was my first thought upon awakening this morning. My head was pounding, my back aching and a dreaded sense of another weekend slogging around swirled around in my brain. My thoughts turned to day lazy days of teenage-hood growing up in Southern California - playing tennis with my sister each day after she got home from school, swimming in our pool each day - and I emphasize each day - what happened to that energetic person I once was?

Sometimes I think being in New England for so many years has changed me - for the better in one way and for the worse in another. Take the weather - I hate the cold so over the long years I've lived here I learned to hibernate until the first crocuses are out or the first song of the robin. Not good, however, I have never been able to get into winter sports....even in California, in the wintertime, I would trek up to the mountains with my friends and ski, or attempt to do so. After one run, I'd be down in the ski lodge with a cup of hot chocolate in my freezing hands and my stockinged feet propped up on the fireplace. Just not a winter outdoor person.

Recently I considered taking up snowboarding, after all, it looked similar to surfing - something to which I was once fairly adept, but after hearing of the dangers decided against it, and anyway, I would be out in the freezing weather.

So maybe it's a treadmill I need. Ipod and treadmill. Something to think about before the snow flies.

Meanwhile, today, after a rainy beginning, it looks to be a nice day. Bad back aside, I will be out in the garden weeding and planting, and perhaps even take a small walk. Maybe that's the answer there....exercise and fresh air - the things of happiness not the yearning for long-past youth. After all, none of us can turn back time, we only have today and hopefully time in the future to live as fully and as happily as we can, doing what we can to preserve this beautiful earth upon which we live, and treasuring the people we know, and those who enter our path during our days upon the earth. Blessings.

OCEAN