This weekend I attended my mother-in-law's 90th Birthday Celebration. It was a very happy occasion. She is pretty alert and spritely for a 90 year old.
However, I was very impressed by her 84 year old brother-in-law who is a 'fit as a fiddle'. Very alert and in great physical condition. Chirpy. Still tinkering in the farms machinery shed. And an active user of the Internet, including watching youtube clips. Amazing!
It got me wondering about how that happens. Sure there is the luck of the genes, the lottery of disease and injury, but it seems to me that there must also be an underlying attitude to life; a curiosity that is never quenched; a hope for each new day.
When asked about growing old my mother in law always says, “Oh, I don’t want to live to 100.” We don’t get to make that choice. We just wake up in the morning and live one day at a time. Maybe that turns into being 100, but whatever happens we need to choose to live our life and enjoy it, whatever stage of life we are at.
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