A Senior Citizen Sunset

 

Song:  Into Dust

Group:  Mazzy Star

Bandi and I took a walk to Sunset Point just a short while ago.

As you can see...

my driveway is still coated in ice...

even though the road is mostly free from it.

Bandi and I are setting out to view the sunset here.

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I've had several large deliveries over the past few days.

I am setting up my home gym...

and several hundred pounds of equipment arrived...

and on Monday...

even more equipment is to arrive.

I had the delivery service just drop off the equipment up near 

the beginning of the driveway as I didn't want any of the personnel to slip on the ice... 

as my driveway declines to the garage doors where I took the equipment.

Don't worry...

I just backed my car up and put the equipment into the back and drove it down into the garage.

I broke down the packages into many trips into the home gym area...

and I then tore up the many boxes and bagged the pieces into a total of eight garbage bags...

and one long cardboard tube.

I will be posting pictures of the equipment in a couple of days...

as the major piece of equipment is arriving on Monday.

It will take me a few hours to set everything up once I get the rest of the packages.

As most of my days are behind me...

and yet, some of the most beautiful ones still lie ahead...

this sunset represents my point in life now.

As I am now a Senior Citizen (65 years old)...

and the sun is setting on life...

each day is proving to be more and more colorful and serene.

The bright ambers have transformed into light pinks and cherry reds...

and so, the colors are even more deeply felt.

Without the dark clouds of approaching night...

there would not be the contrast from which the beauty of the setting sun would reverberate.

Sorry...

I do not wish to sound morbid or morose...

for I am quite the opposite.

I love life so much...

and I feel so fortunate to be where I am now.

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It is not that I have only recently discovered beauty in life...

only that I have always deeply appreciated so many things in life...

and now...

it is even more magnified.

I have always been deeply happy inside...

music and colors have always been so beautiful to me...

have always reverberated inside...

and so, have always led me to deeply love music, sunrises, and sunsets.

Being alone while feeling the deepening colors of a sunset

has always been some of my personally happiest times.

Of course...

life takes on the meaning we give it...

but those times spent in introspection during a grand sunset...

or just staring at the stars...

puts all of life into perspective for me.

I know of our very limited time spent alive...

and of how fragile it sometimes is.

That is why I have never taken life for granted.

It is just now...

more than ever...

that as certain doors are closing in life...

especially with some loved ones...

I, at least, have no regrets for my time with them...

for I had never put other things before them.

I had always appreciated my time with them.

We each must live our lives with the knowledge 

that death is the night of our lives...

and that we only have one sunrise...

and so...

only one sunset.

 I am living life with full knowledge of the coming night...

but that is why my sunset is so beautiful and serene.

I have lived with deferred gratification...

always building for the future...

always striving to appreciate...

at least...

some part of each day...

no matter the negative surroundings each of us at times...

finds ourselves.

I have always had music and sunsets as my refuge.

In them...

I find great beauty.

In them...

I have a sacred time of deep reflection.

In them...

the mind goes on a flight of fancy where the subconscious reveals itself

through the movies of the mind...

and where our most desired paths in life are illustrated.

And...

it is through them that serenity is reached.

A deep inner happiness then prevails.

For those of us in the sunset of life...

this is for what we have prepared...

the most serene and beautiful portion of our lives.

Get rid of the negative and the unnecessary.

Fully feel music...

the colors of sunsets...

that of great meals...

and with those of whom truly deserve to be a part of our lives.

Simply live life fully...

and as night approaches...

even the twinkling stars will bring great joy...

for we will have no regrets...

but only the lingering beauty and serenity of our sunset.