Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I'm taking a friend out to lunch today and she just called to ask if we could make it earlier.  She's "dying to get out" she says.  She was five days in the hospital then has had a long recuperation at home.  I'm happy to toodle her around.  One of the challenging things about getting older is the inevitable surgeries and falls and fractures that cause immobility.  And we don't want to rest.  We still want to go-go-go!  I was talking to another friend about her frustration with the healing process a couple of days ago.  Yes, you can read and watch movies and talk on the phone, but not to drive and be able to get up and go on a whim is annoying.  With that friend, since she has a new knee, the rewards are going to be well worth it, and she wasn't getting around well beforehand, but still.  We should be grateful, and cosmically we are, but minute to minute - not so much.  My turn will be coming and I've already had a three week in bed knee problem that still haunts me about what is to come.  But, as they say, the alternative is definitely worse!