What is something you’ve grown to appreciate as you have grown older? 

How has growing older effected you? Do you feel this change has been an advantage or a disadvantage?

One thing I’ve grown to appreciate as I’ve gotten older is staying home. Looking back at some of blog posts I wrote a decade ago, I used to write about how much I want to travel, to go explore the countries of Europe and Asia or even just go on a simple hike. Anywhere but home.

Back then I felt like when I’m at home, I have to face my mom all the time. Of course, I still have to face her all the time and listen to her YouTube videos all the time, even when I have my noise-cancelling headphones on. The other annoying thing is she’ll start talking, trying to get my attention the second I put on my headphones. Thankfully, my headphones work so well that cannot hear a word she says.

These days, I’d rather be on the couch. Going outside these days feels exhausting to me and with the low humidity and dry sun beating down on my skin, it would mean I must lather myself head to toe in sunscreen and gobble down an antihistamine before I can step outside anytime past 10 AM. It’s weird, too, because I remember feeling this way 10 years ago but worse and ended up getting diagnosed with a skin lupus. Now, I don’t know whether that’s the lupus acting up or just one of the lovely perks of aging.

The other thing that made me appreciate more about stay indoors, riding on an airplane is very painful to my knees. There are these little pieces of calcification lodged in my legs, near my knees, and with prolong sitting, like on an airplane ride, I will start to feel like something is pressed up against my knees, cutting off the sensation to my legs.

My mom has been making me take a supplement to hopefully help with the pain. The calcification isn’t going away but it’s supposed to help with pain reduction. My knees didn’t hurt during the last plane ride two months ago, so maybe it’s helping.

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