Aging

Saturday night I was standing around talking with a couple of friends and the topic of age came up. I have developed a trick over the years of how to find out peoples ages and not be offensive. I just make sure I guess an obviously wrong, yet flattering age. As an example, I sometimes need to find out what class room to put a student in at church so I guess there age to be 15 or 16 when they are really about 8 or 9. It always makes them feel good. Or how about a 16year old, guess that they are 20 and watch them glow. Now this trick works on us more mature folks as well, tell a 50 year old that they look like they are 30 and you have made a friend for life.

Aging is a fact of life and the alternative isn’t very promising. What we can avoid is getting OLD. Old is a state of being stale and showing deterioration. We need to mature as we age, we need to continue to grow in character and wisdom with every experience that life brings us. My husband is always saying, “old is a state of mind” and I prefer to age like a good cheese and get better as the time past.