Re: OT....aging gracefully

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> Sheila,

> I'm so sorry about your grandmother.... I'm sure you miss her, but she

> probably lived a very happy life with an attitude like that. My dad said

> he's never felt old until he looked in the mirror and was " shocked " to see

> an old man looking back at him :-) He said that inside he felt like about

> 13.

>

> Sandy

Isn't it great that we have had such good examples! My husband was 14

years older than I. He died at age 68, in 1988. I asked him on his

65th birthday: " What do you consider old? " His reply was: " Anyone

older than I am! " Of course he was blind the last 11 years of his life,

and thus could not watch himself age.

I think that with that kind of attitude, we miss a lot of stress some

get from trying to escape aging. Trying to avoid it, IMO, is a lot of

hard work.

Sheila