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Slowing down

Slowing Down  When I came back home after quite some time, there were things those needed time, attention and efforts.. When I started, I couldn't stop.. I was enthusiastic and full of energy  but my body warned, 'girl, slow down,  you are not sixteen but almost sixty..' I ignored that pessimist.. 'Age is just a number' I told her 'The soul is forever sixteen' Then I said something like the quote I picked up somewhere.. 'When you really want to do things the universe helps to get that done..' I continued to tend my garden rearranging heavy pots... Soon  realisation  struck hard, accompanying aches and sprain!! The soul was just the motivator, the job had to be done by  body, the almost sixty-year- old one with its stiff muscles and joints.. So, here I am reading a book in bed  Both body and soul relaxed.. I can hear the rain outside, just the right  pitch and rhythm.. I feel the cozy cool wind gushing in... Well, I guess the Universe ...