Age is just a number
We see a change in our physical, mental and social appearance as part of the norm when it comes to getting older, and we accept this for what it is. Things we were able to do as a 10, 20, 30 year old are no longer easy and in some cases not even possible. As we get older we begin to accept that we are slowing down a little, something we took for granted in our 20’s, like a 20 hour day isn’t a walk in the park anymore. When it used to only take a day to recover it now takes 2, sometimes 3 or more days before our body clock is back to normal, we have had sufficient sleep and can cope with the complexities that life is throwing at us, and not just function and do the basics required to get us through the day.
On the weekend, my husband (Nathan) and I attended a Seminar in Sydney. It was to introduce new hearing aid technology that has been released so that we can, hopefully, pass these new technological advancements on to you. The disappointing part of our trip was that it was literally fly-in, fly-out. After a busy Thursday night, footy training, organising kids for School the following day, making sure all clothes required were washed and dried etc., bed time was 11.00pm. Up at 2.30 to be gone by 3 and make the flight by 8am! Luckily, I was able to doze on and off on the drive to Melbourne, but Nathan, who drove, was not so lucky. Thankfully he was awake and very aware as we had a near miss with another vehicle who came onto our side of the road at a very inopportune moment and we very nearly didn’t make it anywhere! However, we did make it to Sydney, sat through the seminar with a few strong coffee’s and could take in the information needed to be able to see that we are indeed making inroads with hearing aids that will benefit everyone and especially those who love technology in general.
Dinner was a cruise on Sydney Harbour taking in the sights of the Vivid Light’s around Sydney’s foreshore. When we disembarked at 11.00pm that night all I could think about was a good sleep as we had to rise early to make out flight back to Melbourne. However, this was not the case as we checked into our flight via Mobile and it was only as Nathan was looking at his boarding pass that instead of an 8.30am boarding we had a 12.30pm boarding. So a lengthy look through all (5) email addresses to see if we had been notified of any changes. No, we definitely hadn’t! A call to the airline at midnight revealed our flight had been cancelled and we had been placed on a later flight. Hubby was able to get us back onto an earlier flight as we had to be in Deniliquin by 2pm for him to play Rugby. So, flights rearranged we turn out the lights for another (limited) sleep night, only to receive a phone call half an hour later from the Travel Agent who had originally booked our flights letting us know they had been informed we were on an earlier flight! Finally asleep, Saturday dawned very bright and early, though not as early as Thursday. We made it back to Melbourne without any issues. A 3 hour drive to Deniliquin to play rugby and we finally finished our day back in Swan Hill by 8.30 Saturday night.
If you ask me how old I am? I’ll happily tell you I’m 35. I’m not ashamed of my age (however I do tell our kids at each birthday I’m only 21). How old do I feel? I still feel like I’m 19. But, my body doesn’t work like a 19 year olds anymore. Most of our clients have a number of years experience on me, and, when asked how old they are, none have any qualms telling you. When asked how old they feel?….I am yet to have anyone tell me they feel older than their actual age. In my last post I talked about not being old enough to need hearing aids. Well, age is just a number. When it comes to our hearing, it doesn’t matter if we are 6 months old, 60 years old or 96 years old. It can affect anyone at any time. It is our bodies though that dictate to us what we can and can not do.