Today after school I opened up my email to the following messages.
Luminous white teeth
Have wrinkles?
Weight Loss Pills
Medical Hair Restoration
Prescription Aide
I am totally serious – these were the subjects of the five emails I received today. Why do I get messages like that? There was a theme in these messages, and the only thing missing was the real estate guide for assisted living locations and the “Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” necklace.
Seriously, I KNOW I AM 50! I do not need a daily reminder from the advertisers in cyber world. Yes, I have the beginnings of wrinkles but I don’t need someone to ask me, “Got Wrinkles”. I also do not need someone to email me to remind me that I need to work a little harder to keep extra pounds off.
I happen to love my age. I’m excited to live in an age where getting older is more of a liberating time in our lives. I found some sayings about old age that I really liked. I’ve listed them below.
Luminous white teeth
Have wrinkles?
Weight Loss Pills
Medical Hair Restoration
Prescription Aide
I am totally serious – these were the subjects of the five emails I received today. Why do I get messages like that? There was a theme in these messages, and the only thing missing was the real estate guide for assisted living locations and the “Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” necklace.
Seriously, I KNOW I AM 50! I do not need a daily reminder from the advertisers in cyber world. Yes, I have the beginnings of wrinkles but I don’t need someone to ask me, “Got Wrinkles”. I also do not need someone to email me to remind me that I need to work a little harder to keep extra pounds off.
I happen to love my age. I’m excited to live in an age where getting older is more of a liberating time in our lives. I found some sayings about old age that I really liked. I’ve listed them below.
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. -- Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973)
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Benjamin Franklin
Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn
These are two of my favorites
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." -- Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -- Douglas MacArthur
The one I really like I can’t remember where I heard it, but it was said by an old time baseball player. He said, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
If I answered that question I’d be in my early thirties or even in my twenties, but I’m glad that I’m fifty. I’m glad to be right where I am.
1 comment:
These quotes are awesome...You are the youngest looking old person I know! Seriously, old is not what I would discribe you as. Vibrant, funny, amazing, determined, dedicated, spiritually in tune, loving, loyal, ....the list could go on. But my point is that old is just a word..not you.
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