The Beauty of Aging

The older I get the more I understand the complexity that people encompass

The older I get the more I understand how wounded and traumatized people are

The older I get the more I see the baggage and dysfunction that accumulates over time

We either delve deep into healing, or we exist in the contradictory space between a desire to connect and a desire to protect ourselves 

Or perhaps we fluctuate between all of it 

We cannot continue to function the same ways we always have

We either grow and change or root further into our dysfunction

I would not choose to go back in time

I am grateful for the wisdom that aging brings

I find peace here, in the dissolution of all things that never mattered

And the discovery of what does