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Best Time Ever<br />
By: Liz Breier / This & That<br />
magazine geared towards a senior<br />
A community MUST be able to give us an<br />
opportunity to reminisce. Specifically, I was<br />
thinking about “the best time I ever had.”<br />
Reflecting over a lifetime, what exciting things have you done?<br />
Did you go to Woodstock? Was there<br />
a special trip that stands out from any<br />
others? It’s fun to think back on the<br />
“crazy” things we have done.<br />
For me, knowing that I will never do<br />
them again but glad I have the memories<br />
of days when I was less cautious. A bit of a<br />
daredevil provides me with the joy of the<br />
memories.<br />
Most of us are old enough to remember<br />
hitchhiking, and we shudder when we<br />
think back on our cavalier attitude to<br />
do something so dangerous, at least by<br />
today’s standards. And if you grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s no one I<br />
knew even had a key to their home, because the door was always open.<br />
What was so much fun then is frightening now.<br />
Ever swim with the dolphins? Snow ski? Water ski? How about<br />
skydiving? A Sydney Harbor Bridge walk?<br />
How about the Grand Canyon Skywalk with its glass bottomed<br />
cantilevered bridge? Helicopter onto a glacier? Win a lottery or a<br />
jackpot?<br />
The best time might have been a great surprise party or an exquisite<br />
dining experience. That’s the beauty of living - we can choose what we<br />
each enjoy.<br />
And having fun is something that has<br />
no right or wrong and can be different for<br />
every individual.<br />
There is an expression that youth is<br />
wasted on the young, but when it comes to<br />
having fun, when we take that walk down<br />
memory lane, aren’t we glad that we can<br />
smile at the remembrances of some of our<br />
adventures and be grateful we have those<br />
memories to smile about?<br />
Let’s all be glad we lived life to the fullest<br />
(whatever that means to each of us) and<br />
even though we might not be ready to<br />
strap on some hiking equipment and tackle Mt. Everest, at least we<br />
have the pleasure of the memories of our escapades.<br />
No regrets.<br />
Liz Breier is an ex-New Yorker who retired to Florida for 24 years<br />
before deciding that Nevada means home to her. You can contact<br />
Liz at: bluesky090372@gmail.com.<br />
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