Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 55 years old. Sometimes I feel like I am still 6 and my life has been one very long session of “playing grown-up”. I want to be 6 again. I want to be carefree, innocent. Except then I would have to go through all that troublesome growing up again; there are life lessons to be learned, after all. And so I have been thinking, what exactly have I learned these fifty-five years? Who have I become because of the lessons life has taught me? I will share these life lessons with you, one a day, for the next fifty-five days. Some lessons are very profound, some are not. They won’t be in any particular order, and most of them you have probably already learned in your own way through your own experiences, so I doubt they will be anything new or earth-shattering. So, really, I do this for me, not for you, to somehow quantify these fifty-five years of living, to remind myself that they have had purpose and meaning, or maybe even to remind myself that I have purpose and meaning. I invite you along for the ride…
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Who is Nana Laura?
I am Laura Jane Packham Ricks, a 61-year old divorced mother of six (Nathan, Eli, Jesse, Aaron, Hannah, and Isaac) and grandmother of six (Dallin, Mia, Avey, Kaitlyn, Carver, and Hakan). I am a special ed teachers' aide in elementary school and a library volunteer. I enjoy teaching, all types of sewing and needlework, gardening, cooking, writing, reading, and playing the piano.
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." --Victor Hugo
2 comments:
Hmm, the last year to claim dyslexia for a few years. I am very interested to read what you have learned over your short 55 years.
Often the view we have of ourselves is clouded by our struggles, and we can find marvelous value in learning how others see us as well (being our nature to discount the good we bring into life). Hopefully, others will contribute to your contemplations...offering their own views about who they think you have become. After reading your blogs I am confident you have many friends and loved ones who consider you very favorably.
I often wonder what life will be like in 25 or 30 years (will I still stand up straight, or even stand up at all)? How do you see it?
I hope others will contribute, too; I DO have very wonderful friends, fabulous sisters, and my children are a great comfort to me (you will learn more about them in the next 55 days). I wonder about the future, too, mostly wondering if I have enough time left for all my hopes and dreams to be realized... I'd better take very good care of myself and get busy working on them!
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