Happy 27th Birthday To Me!!!!

WOW- 27 years old. Time is not stopping for anyone, not even me. Getting older scares me...lately I have been more aware of older individuals as they have a hard time walking around or they can't hear very well or they are injured easily. As my dad always says, "Getting old is not for wimps!"

I was with Kjell one day when someone asked her about her age. She said, "I don't worry about aging; I embrace it!" WOW, what a concept. I want to embrace aging as well. I think Morrie, from the book "Tuesdays With Morrie", says it best:

In addition to the miseries [of being young], the young are not wise. They have little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on?...

I embrace aging... It's very simple. As you grow older, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's about the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

[Mitch Albom chimes in to ask]Yes, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, " Oh if I were young again." You never hear people say, "I wish I were sixty-five."

Morie goes on to say," You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back, You want to go forward. You want to see more. You can't wait until you sixty-five.

LISTEN. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Thanks Morrie for those wise words. It's true...I have become so much smarter and a better individual as I have grown older. So what if I have a few laugh lines...it means I laugh and enjoy life. Here's to EMBRACING MY AGE!