Through these Eyes

Amy Williams Aging in the Family Professor Susan Levy Through these Eyes May 1 Dear Diary, Today is the first day of the rest of my life. This is what my husband told me on our wedding day. That wonderful, beautiful day was the first day of the rest of my life too. God, how I miss him. I never expected life to be like this. I never expected to live this long…this way. Today …

…woman that I want to become. I stared in the mirror for a very long time, just studying what I saw before me. Then the silence was shattered. I heard the woman say, “Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life.” I laughed out loud and said, Yes! Welcome to the first day of the rest of my life! Bibliography none. this was a fictional journal entry written for a gerontology class