Ok I’ve had to come to terms with a few truths: It takes a little longer to get up from picking something up that fell on the floor. I may have to increase the waist size on my next pair of Wrangler jeans (may I said). Do I look as good as I think I do in that sports car?
So, I turned 67 in 24. But I never thought of myself as old. When I was 18, 55 was old. When I turned 60 a friend got me a bottle of wine wrapped in a Depends.
But when I told my friends in Michigan that my wife Barb and I bought a coffee shop in Arizona, there it was. The one phrase that stopped me in my tracks. “Are you sure you want to do that? At your age?” Because at my age you are ready to retire to a golf course. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I just don’t play golf. However, most normal people my age are getting ready to slow down, downsize, and talk baby talk to their tiny dogs.
It seems they weren’t listening the last several years, that whenever we talked about our jobs, careers, or businesses, I was nowhere close to slowing down like they were. I told them over and over, “I’m just getting started.”
Fast forward to today and here we are in Arizona running our coffee house Hava Java in beautiful Las Sendas, and while many of our customers and new friends are retired, it’s the younger customers who when I tell them our story and that I’m no way slowing down and just getting started, that they really get it! Afterall, they still have that drive and heart for adventure.They glow with it.
My only point is, you’re never too old to follow a dream or start a new adventure. Yes, at my age!
Hava Java Mesa is located at the northeast corner of Power and McDowell roads in The Village at Las Sendas, 2849 N. Power Road, Suite 103, in Mesa.