this morning #926.

this morning, this random teenage girl at the market could see i was straining as i reached for a can of peaches so she stepped in to offer assistance. i thanked her kindly. she handed me the can & looked at me with this wry smile. with zero hesitation, she asked me “what’s the secret to your longevity?” the way she casually used “longevity” to hint at my age caught me off-guard but since i truly knew what MY secret is, i shook it off & shared. way back in my fifties, i simply stopped caring about pleasing people. most of the time, they don’t even know how to make themselves happy. how can i expect to do so? once i stopped worrying about that, i shed all my stress. i could tell she didn’t get it.