I am so amazed that I do not
appreciate health when I have it all the time, but usually after a short
illness I realize how wonderful it is. Seems that is a picture of much of life,
appreciate something when it has been absent for a while.
Will that be true of Leroy if he dies
before I do? I must appreciate all his good qualities now while I still have
them around to irritate me. Each night before we go to sleep we give each other
a compliment. We have been doing this for some 40 years. The hard part is that
sometimes we challenge ourselves to give the partner a new compliment. Once in
a while one of us can still come up with something new, but it is a struggle.
However I do not mind hearing the same compliment a few times over.
Going back to health, I am impressed
with how much our bodies can heal and grow back together. For instance think
about a broken bone or cut skin. We may not be bionic, but we are quite
wonderfully made.
Even when a part is missing on a body,
there is often an alternative way of doing things. And to think we have a brain
that can figure out some of those possibilities. Now technology helps people in
many ways, perhaps contributing to that bionic body that was not possible when
I was a girl.
Paula
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