Inspiration

tonight was volleyball again.

Can i say

Highlight of my week!

I was informed

that i was an inspiration.

I am not sure i want to be an inspiration.

(an inspiration with perspiration)

I am not sure how i feel about that one little bit.

I think it makes me feel old.

Should it?

Did they mean it that way--

when they said they hoped their wives could play like me

when they were my age?

I think they meant it as a compliment.?

Getting older can sometimes be a hard pill to swallow

That and the handful of Naproxin i took tonight

so my old bones

and stiff muscles

won't hate me too much in the morning.

“Believe in yourself!

Have faith in your abilities!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence

in your own powers

you cannot be successful or happy.”

-----

Norman Vincent Peale

Here is to many more years of inspiring those around me!