Not sure where it originated but a good read....
William81
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Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we
like to get old is when we're kids?
If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited
about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never
thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going
on five!
That's the key. You get into your teens, now they
can't hold you back.
You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13,
but hey, you're gonna be 16!
And then the greatest day of your life . . . you
become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . .
YOU BECOME 21. . . YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there?
Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED, we had
to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're just a
sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.
Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away.
Before you know it, you REACH 50 . . . and your dreams
are gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After
that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80s and every day is a complete
cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH
bedtime.
And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start
going backwards; "I was JUST 92."
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100,
you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age,
weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them.
That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer,
crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the
devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The
only person who is with us our entire life, is
ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's
family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,
whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If
it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you
can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to
the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to
where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at
every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
Comments
Well said
Yep, I tell this story on myself to show why you may not want to grow up too fast:
I grew up on a farm; my first tricycle had a plow welded to it so I could plow the driveway when dad was working the fields. When I was 8 or so I asked dad, "When can I start driving tractors?"
He told me his dad had told him he had to grow a garden before he could drive the tractor.
So the next spring I got busy and planted some potatoes, beans and corn. Watered it, weeded it, then one day I checked on it and all that was left of my potatoes were nubs -- bugs had been busy.
A few years later I thought about that garden. At the time I was sitting on a tractor, plowing a field 3 miles from town with about an hour to go before dad would pick me up for supper. I could see the lights of the baseball field where I soon discovered my best friend and the girl I thought of as my girlfriend were watching the game together.
Be careful what you ask for.🙄
I tell people one night I went to bed and I was 55. I woke up the next morning and I was 68.
I still work with fractions.............I'm almost 3/4 of a century.
sad but true
I think based on myself its some kind of dog year based science first 18 years each year seemed like years went by before the next birthday came along 16 and 18 felt more like 20 + years waiting on that special day after hitting 40 it went in reverse a year seemed like a few months 50 every year seemed to roll by faster after 50 some weird time warp space tear worm hole effect happens all of sudden you wake up and your past 60 . and time speeds up 4x each following year .
my brain still thinks I am about 35 or 40 in what I want to do and get done and signals my body were going to do this to day but my broken down worn out body .. sadly reply's go back to sleep your dreaming again .😥
I had been waiting all my life to call a 50 year old, "A young whipper Snapper" 😁