<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440565" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only The Ones Who Continually Count Their Blessings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is it when one is young, <br>Aging is something believed...<br>No one wants to get done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've had my share of bouts with doubts.<br>Praying my advancing age...<br>Would not be so obvious.<br>Or in public be announced, <br>To be shouted out.<br>As I made attempts not to appear, <br>Like I was not experiencing a mid-life crisis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, <br>I've earned this.<br>I had to awaken to admit it! <br>I've EARN THIS! <br>Every bit of it and proud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have managed to do some things I dared.<br>With challenges and obstacles, <br>To prove a faith had pulled me through...<br>Mucho grief! <br>With just some of it shared.<br>Not all.<br>I don't want to scare the few people I know, <br>Away! <br>There's already been an acceptance, <br>Of my mentioned dysfunctions.<br>Why blow it on a 'show and tell' demonstration? <br>Some boundaries should be kept limited.<br>And imagined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is it when one is young, <br>Aging is something believed...<br>No one wants to get done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've had my share of bouts with doubts.<br>Praying my advancing age...<br>Would not be so obvious.<br>Or in public be announced, <br>To be shouted out.<br>As I made attempts not to appear, <br>Like I was not experiencing a mid-life crisis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I use to fear aging before I understood it.<br>Only the ones who continually count their blessings, <br>Can appreciate a few aches and pains...<br>And associate 'that' with being grateful to feel them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the ones who continually count their blessings, <br>Can appreciate a few aches and pains...<br>And associate 'that' with being grateful to feel them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I'll keep that repeated to myself, <br>As a reminder.<br>Sometimes this self motivation business, <br>Does get old and tired.<br>But a blessing to live to get done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You never know who's listening, <br>When confessions are being made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440565" data-title="Only The Ones Who Continually Count Their Blessings de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Why is it when one is young, Aging is something believed... No one wants to get done. I've had my share of bouts with doubts. Praying my advancing age... Would not be so obvious. Or in public be announced, To be shouted out. As I made attempts ..."></div> </div> </div>

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