Old email message.........How old are you..
William81
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Oldie......
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
Yep. I tell people I went to bed one night, I was 55. When I woke up the next morning, I was 67.
Truth
I'm old enough to know better but also old enough to not give a damn! 😁 Bob
I've told many friends........."It's not the years.......it's the MILES!"
Even so.......I record Jeopardy every day, and play it back.......sometimes at my "speed". I've been known to "pause" the playback, for more than a few minutes(hours.....even days), in order to mentally come up with the answer. At times, my wife says I'm a bit obsessive.......but it's those times that I refuse to give up on myself. Always been that way.......probably always will.
I also enjoy doing Sudoku puzzles and cryptograms........and the wife likes crossword puzzles.
Bottom line.......endeavor to persevere.😉
My brains file cabinet is slow to open these days but fortunately, given enough time, I can still find what I am looking for! As long as I can still remember what the question was!! 😯
All our memories are stored in our brain's grey matter. As we age, the grey matter necessarily fills up. When it reaches capacity, we start to push memories into the nearest place from the brain, which are the roots of our hair. But memories are harder to retrieve from hair, so some of the new stuff gets misplaced or takes longer to find. All the old stuff is there in the brain, but the new stuff gets cut at the barbershop or goes down the shower drain.
And that's why we get grey hair and can't remember what we had for supper last night.
In response to Rocky's comment ---- Best Regards -- AQH