IT MAKES ME SAY SOMETHING - 11

IT MAKES ME SAY SOMETHING – 11 Accidents caused by older drivers stepping on the accelerator instead of the brake seem to be increasing – this makes me say something. To begin with I will be 80 next month so I qualify as an older driver. My mind body and spirit are in good health. If you’re an older driver or know someone who is, consider what my experience has taught me. About eight years ago I was in a rush and making a left turn into a shopping center lot; an oncoming car changed lane and appeared to be making a right turn into the same lot – in a split second I concluded the driver would have to slow down to make the turn; just enough time for me to make my left turn and be out of his way: BIG MISTAKE! No one hurt but it crippled my income for a while. OLDER PEOPLE SHOULD GIVE THEMSELVES A FEW SECONDS BEFORE ACTING ON AN IMPULSE – our reflexes don’t readjust as quickly as a younger person’s. When convinced we’re on the brake we keep pushing that accelerator to the floor trying to stop the car. Another less hazardous senior moment may cause us and others some frustration. We open the fridge and forget What we wanted, go into another room and forget Why. I don’t beat myself up because of these moments – and I don’t let others get me upset. When you consider the number of times you open the fridge or enter another room it’s little wonder why our brain gets confused sometimes as to What or Why. You will usually find the answer to What or Why where you just came from. www.adolphusward.net, www.amazon.com/author/adolphus

JUST SHARING MY THOUGHTS - 4

JUST SHARING MY THOUGHTS – 4 I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t curious about a number of things – many of them at the same time. It’s part of the reason I wasn’t a very good young student. When the rest of the class was focused on what the teacher was talking about my mind was focused on the voices and activities inside my head. Sometimes I’d be just outside the classroom window – with the squirrel leaping from one limb to another, with the leaves being stirred, with the tree swaying to the rhythm of the wind. More often than not I’d be far away – riding on the back of a fast moving train, at the helm of a sailing ship bucking the angry waves of a storm. Where was I going? I didn’t care – as long as it was away from where I was. Mine was a running towards not a running from – I was always moving to discover what was on the other side of a hill, moving to discover another body of water, another continent, another planet. I was and still am on a quest to know more about me about this earth and all whom I share it with. I want to know more about our solar system, our galaxy, our universe – both the universe inside of me (that I cannot see) and universe outside of me (that I can see a portion of) but know so little about. Science tells me that each cell of my body inevitably dies and is continually replaced by another cell; and that this process has been going on since my inception. The cells I now have are not the cells I had – my body does not contain a single cell I had at my inception. This renewal process is also true in the outer universe – no planet, no solar system, no galaxy existing in the universe now is the same as those existing at the inception of our known universe. The cells – whether they’re in our brain, heart, lungs, liver, reproductive organs… – that make up our internal universe are interdependent. The inhabitants of earth are all interdependent. The claim of one group to be superior to other groups is nothing more than a vain attempt to deny interdependency. When a powerful group dominates and or annihilates other groups the interdependency of the groups is corrupted. That corruption will negatively affect the health and wellbeing of all groups – the power group will not escape the negative effects. www.adolphusward.net, www.amazon.com/author/adolphusward