George Carlin's Views on Aging

 

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids?  If you're less than 10 year old, you're so excited about aging that you think infractions.  "How old are you?”  "I'm four and a half!” 
You're never thirty-six and a half.  You're four and a half, going on five!  That's the key.
Then one gets to your teens, now they can't hold you back.  You jump up to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?”  "I'm gonna be 16!”  You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16!  And then the greatest day of your life.  You become 21.  Even the words sounded like a ceremony.”  I'm gonna be 21, yeees, whooho!

But then you turn 30. 

Pooh, what happened there?  Makes you sound like bad milk or milk which has gone wrong.  Hmm, he TURNED.  Within a way we had to throw him out.  There is no fun within that.  Now, you’re just a sour-dumpling.  What's wrong?  What's changed?  You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.  Whoa!  Put on the "go brakes".  As it's all slipping away now!  Before you know it you reached 50.  And your dreams are gone and well...But wait here, you made it to 60, you never thought you would you didn’t think you would but you did.
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, and REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70!After that it's a Day to day thing as you hit Wednesday and every day is complete by this time - just perhaps.
Yet wait a minute here NOW COMES THE ripe age of 80. 

Now the cycle is complete!

You HIT 4:30pm and now you have reached BEDTIME. 
And it doesn’t just end there.  As now it's that endeavor of hitting 90's and you start to go backwards.  "I Was JUST 92.”  Then a strange thing happens.  If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again.  "I'm 100 and a half!”  May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!  As that that really despite all equates to 100% regardless of the Cycle.
 

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

Throw out nonessential numbers.  This includes age, weight and height.  Let the doctors worry about them.  That is why YOU pay "them”. Keep only cheerful friends.  The grouches pull you down.Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.  Never let the brain idle.  "An idle mind is the devil's workshop.”  And the devil's name is called, EASILY CONFUSED!
Enjoy the simple things.  Laugh often, long and loud.  Laugh until you gasp for breath. The tears happen.  Endure, grieve, and move on.The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. 

Be ALIVE while YOU are ALIVE.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether its family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.Your home is your refuge not your solitude.
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it.  If it is unstable, improve it.  If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.Don't take guilt trips, take a trip to the mall. For that matter take a trip to someplace you have never been. Now that's a trip.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
 

~ AND ALWAYS REMEMBER ~

LIFE is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by and those moments that take our breath away.