Back in the spring, I went on a fabulous tropical vacation.  Many days of fun in the sun!  And yet, that picture you see above?  Me. “Enjoying the sun” while wearing a long-sleeve shirt, hat, sunglasses, and probably a gallon of sunscreen.  Ok, maybe half a gallon.  You get the idea.

On the other hand, my young daughters scurry about all day long without a care in the world.  No sun shirt and sunscreen only when I force them to sit still long enough.

Somewhere between us, the teens and twenty-somethings, lazily relax by the pool, not only avoiding the sunscreen but using baby baby oil and other tan-enhancers.  I tried to be one of them once.  I found out pretty quickly that I just turn into a lobster.

So why the change from my young daughters to me?

As we get older, we often bemoan many of our physical and mental changes. But many of the changes actually serve us well.

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