It was an ordinary day. Reading about growing older and how it really sucks. I qualify as someone who is old being that I will soon to be in my 80s. When I was a young whipper-snapper I thought that people who were in their 80s should all be put in nursing homes until they die. Now that I'm almost there, I have slightly changed my mind. I now think that people in their 90s should all be put in nursing homes. Can you believe that someone who is almost 80 can still type about 50+ words per minute? When I get going and have a story dancing in my thoughts, I can really get my fingers flying on the keyboard. I can still remember back to 10th grade when I took a class in typing. I was one of two boys in the class amongst about two dozen girls. I took the class because I heard it was almost all girls and it didn't require that you wear gym clothes. My teacher was Miss Morse whom everyone thought was a pushover. I found out that year that typing can be challenging, especially when you can't let the girls in the class do better than you...even if they had already had typing the year before. By the end of the year I could type a bit over 50 words per minute which qualified me for last in my class. If I now took the time to stop and count my words-per-minute, I'm sure I have added at least another couple of words per minute to my speed. One problem I have while typing is my fingers don't want to move where my brain wants them to move. Growing older is one of the most pervasive preoccupations of humankind. The passing of time is an inescapable part of the human condition. And, aging seems to be a state of mind...as well as of body. Instead of pouting over the loss of my youth, I should celebrate every extra year and be grateful for getting older. Many great minds have said as much. Well, I have searched and found a few quotes that will tell you a bit about growing older. Check them out and see what you think. I think I fit some of the quotes! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball--the further I am rolled...the more I gain. Susan B. Anthony
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Minister Frank Crane
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Author Madeleine L'Engle
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Author Martha Beck
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
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