Gracefully We Grow - I think and thunk it Over :)

How have you aged?

I wear dentures. Yet I always tell people they are cosmetic implants.

 

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I nearly have to go to the washroom so much that I wear "elderly" diapers now.

 

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I used to be concerned with holding my breath now I worry about holding gas.

 

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I decline to comment.

 

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I leave it up to my cats to satisfy my curiosity.

 

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If that cat can't then I look at "Fido" my dog.

 

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I used to eat steak and cheescake, now I look forward to prunes.

 

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I went with my 80 year old uncle to get him some groceries and the cashier said, will this be for both of you?

 

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I wake up and forget what day it is.

 

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When a picture is taken, they say cheese and I sneeze, dang it!

 

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They say we’re supposed to age gracefully. Accept the passing of the years with a smile. Give up graciously the things of our youth. Nuts to that! Young people aren’t offended when asked their age but when someone asks me how old I am, I want seemingly it's different to when I was 21. Then again you just embrace it or do we? George Carlin did a great bit on age. When you are very young or very old, you round up. You’re not 5, you’re “nearly 5 and a half”. You’re not 92, you’re “almost 93! As for baby boomers like me, when someone is ill mannered enough to ask, “How old are you?” I turn the tables by smiling and asking, “How old do you think I am?” which immediately puts the person on the spot. They certainly don’t want to guess high so they go low, usually somewhere within the vicinity of five years. Whereupon I answer, “Close enough”. I may be older than I once was, actually lighter than I once was, I’m more forgetful than I once was...hmmm can I multiply as fast within my head as I used to, no it takes a little more time.

But........."big but lets just stop for a moment." 

Aging doesn’t happen until you lose your curiosity…. you no longer care what is around the next corner or over the next hill but are satisfied with what you know now. The way I see it is you're as old as your doubt, as young as your confidence, as old as your fear, and as young as your hope.