HOW ARE YOU...OR...HOW WILL YOU HANDLE GETTING OLDER?

Planning is better than punting!!!!

Anyone who lives long enough gets older. There are no other options.

Therefore, keep both eyes on life and not on the calendar. Admit your age, but don’t admit the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes.

There are ways to make the calendar less intimidating. Poor health and poor attitudes can be improved. Glory in new experience you seek rather than hide in shadows.. Exult in challenge. Turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Satchel Paige once said, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” In the late 1800’s Chancellor Otto Von Bismark started the whole idea that 65 is automatically old. There was no scientific study to prove this mathematical assertion. Rather, it grew out of a German job market that had younger workers standing out in the cold. Then, during the great depression, when our Congress instituted the Social Security System, this arbitrary age was accepted as if it were an edict from on high.

The fact of the matter is that we now live an average of seven decades plus an increasing number of more. And if we survive to sixty-five, statistics promise another sixteen. Therefore, we have to consider retiring to something rather than simply from something. A now I can, why not attitude.

Folks worry a lot these days about not having enough money to retire. Well! Start thinking about things you can do that are priceless.

Get yourself some paints and become an artist, even though forty years ago it was too impractical.

Join an amateur drama group, if this was once your dream.
Sign up for the Peace Corp.
Join a bowling league. (this may not be a trip to Europe but it will fit most budgets)
Serve lunch to the homeless.
Put together game nights for your grandchildren.
Learn to play the piano.
Become an amateur horticulturist as you expand your gardening time.

Don’t just say I have nothing to do. Beef up your choices until your cup is full. Growing old doesn’t have to mean being less active, just active in different ways.

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