The Older I Get
by William S Cottringer — Read all 146 poems by William S Cottringer
The Older I Get…
by William Cottringer
The older I get, the more I listen and the less I talk.
Oddly, when I was younger, I had even less to say and more to hear.
The older I get, the more I value the inner person.
Getting to know people inside out allows you to appreciate both sides.
The older I get, the more I realize that I took the long way home.
I wonder what I would have done if I had gotten here earlier.
The older I get, the more patience I have,
But oddly, the less I need it.
The older I get, the less I think needs changing.
I can’t figure out if I am getting older and wiser or just tired and lazy.
The older I get, the more I prefer the simple things.
It took a lot of getting lost in complexity to figure this out.
The older I get, the more precious time becomes.
Living every moment as if it could be my last, makes them all last longer.
The older I get, the less I want.
Enjoying what I already have reduces inventory and overhead costs greatly.
The older I get, the more I see problems as opportunities.
But I still have to make mistakes to learn anything.
The older I get, the more responsibility I take.
If only I had known how to do this earlier.
The older I get, the closer I get
To where I know I have always been-
Right here where I always wanted to be.
What have I learned from getting older?
It was never anything in life that bothered me,
Just my “wrong” opinions about those things,
which I could only see by getting older.
What haven’t I learned from getting older?
Why we have to get older to understand what is most important.
Saturday, August 31, 2002
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