Time Changes Everything

Somedays I wonder how times seems to pass so quickly. How did I get here from where I was just yesterday? Am I really as old as the years say I am? Are my parents really old? Are my friends aging like me, are those wrinkles around my eyes, is my memory fading, who is that looking back at me in the mirror? At times I hardly recognize myself?

Truly I don't feel that I am the person in the mirror most days. I am still that carefree, innocent, young at heart girl, running down the street yelling at Dana Scott to come and play. Swinging bugs on a string under the street lights, dancing in the rain and rescuing earthworms from mudpuddles. Climbing trees, playing chicken with pocketknives, running the streets with Debbie Gilmore, Cheryl Tyson and Jeanne Cary.

Girl Scout dreams of conquering the world, curing cancer, driving racecars, traveling the world or just being different the rest. We could do anything back then and even to this day.

But today when I look in the mirror I realize that the girl has become a woman whether she likes it or not. Today, I see that time has changed everything, no longer do we run the streets, laughing and joking. Today we bury one of our mother's - Gladys Cary...Today she joins her daughter Jeanne in Heaven.

Today, I realize I am the only one of the four of us girl's who has a mother that is still walking this earth.

Time changes everything...age changes everything....I still dance in the rain, I still rescue earthworms from mudpuddles, I am no longer innocent, I no longer yell for Dana Scott to come out an play, I am no longer young, even though I still run the streets with Cheryl Tyson and I still dream of the possiblities of what if........I will always be different and young at heart !!!!