IF I HAD MY LIFE OVER

 I’d like to make more mistakes next time

 I’d relax, I would limber up

 I would be sillier than I have been this trip I would take fewer things seriously

 I would take more chances 

 I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers 

 I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans

 I would perhaps have more actual troubles BUT I’d have fewer imaginary ones

 You see, I’m one of those people who live sensible and sanely,

 hour after hour, day after day.

 Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had to do it again, 

 I’d have more of them...in fact I’d try to have nothing else.

 Just moment one after the other, instead of living so many years

 Ahead of each day.

 I’ve been one of those persons who never goes anywhere 

 without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute

 If I had to do it again

 I would travel lighter than I have.

 If I had my life to live over,

 I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall

 I would go to more dances

 I would ride more merry-go-rounds

 I would pick more daises.

                                       ~NADINE STAIR

(Pearls of wisdom from an Eighty year old woman)