Enjoy Your Age

I would never trade my amazing friends, my  wonderful life, my loving family for less gray  hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've  become kinder to myself, and less critical of  myself.. I've become my own friend. I don't chide  myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not  making my bed, or for buying that silly cement  gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante  garde on my patio.. I am entitled to a treat, to  be messy, to be extravagant.
 
I have seen  too many dear friends leave this world too soon;  before they understood the great freedom that  comes with aging.
 
Whose  business is it if I choose to read or play on  the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?…