Where we are today has been intertwined with our past influences, be it by people, places and a miriad of life experiences. It is therefore now great to be able to let them all come together in a gentle mix. This for me, is helping create many joyful periods and times, when alone in various places and settings, I draw on the past and blend it into today and this greatly enhances the experience and views of the past and present.
The above experience, is not to deny the times of past unhappiness or trauma, but rather, not to feel the need to have them as a focus. Not to let them be a distraction from the beauty of each present day and the opportunities it presents to appreciate the overwhelming good memories of times past, both many years ago and also recent. The absent mindeness and occassional difficulties in verbal communications, maybe, lead to enhanced focus on the positive aspect of the many things I can do, rather than longing for the enhancement of past abilities.
Much appreciation and pleasure is gained from regularly visiting areas of the town where I was born and revisiting areas in the town centre. Although it has changed considerably from how it was in the 1950/60s, nevertheless there are some significant features that are unchanged and that have been splendidly blended in with the relatively modern buildings. It provides an excellent, gentle, eclectic mix of the past and the present, the yesteryear and the now. I find a regular couple of hours amble alone through the streets of the town centre, to be a most calming and rewarding experience. Seeing the people of today and at the same time enjoying thoughts of people I knew and well known characters of the town from times gone by, is a most enjoyable experience.
So the D is seeming not only to be slowing aspects down, but more importantly, providing enhancment of other mental facets.
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