Emptying my bladder has become a nightly ritual, due to a prolapse. No, don’t ask! I ease my legs out of their cocoon of warmth, rubbing my knees to help bring back circulation. To my embarrassment, as I bend and reach for my slippers a fart escapes me. Keeping my eyes half shut to keep them warm and not wake up completely, I feel my way to the toilet. After a rather inconsequential pee, I wash my hands and have a sip of water. Like a blind person I quietly wend my way back to bed. If I don’t get up to do this, I lie awake. This ritual settles me down to sleep. If by chance I wake my beloved, he then, not so quietly, rises to do the same, shattering the darkness with his torch.
The Daily Post, Ben Huberman Think about your day. Select one of your daily rituals and explain it to us. Why do you do what you do? How do you come to adopt this ritual? What happens on days when you can’t perform it?
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Your described the familiar, Barbara, and I laughed at it. I don’t find it so funny in the middle of the night.
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Janet, shall think of you now, as I feel my way in the dark! 🙂
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An unfortunately reality for those of us of a *certain age*
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Blogging is such a wonderful space to find there are others sharing the same simple rituals. 🙂
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Oh yes the rituals of age. You are revealing our secrets, Barbara. We may have to do something about that!!
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Tragic, isn’t it?! ❤
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I do the same. I sometimes think it would be more convenient to have a bed in the bathroom. Apart from that, making the first coffee in the morning is a ritual I really love and taking a sip of milk straight from the carton.
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He he! That first coffee is also shared in this house, though the sip from the carton is something I tried to stop my children from partaking!
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Ha, ha….join the club!
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Thanks Cynthia, I knew there’d be someone out there who could empathise. ❤
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