Time - Age - Attitude

 

We find ourselves old before we have even begun to realize we are getting old and once we do realize and come to terms with it, we are older than the heavens, so to speak.

The aging process happens quickly after two decades of seemingly slow-moving aging, when in reality what is happening is that time moves by quicker it seems as we age.  Time is what sneaks up on us, not aging.

I don't remember much about my adolescence or my teenage years before high school.  High School is when my memories really start to pick up, then there is another void from about 30-50 or so where I remember that I did this or that but very little of the specifics.

My most current memories arrived at age 60 when I was diagnosed with cancer and had a triple level bypass heart attack while walking on the treadmill.  I did not die then because my healthy body created its own bypass, ignoring the damaged/clogged arteries.

Time and age work in unison to ruin our lives as we get older from a physical point of view and not from a mental point of view unless we allow that to happen.  We must accept that we now have limitation and adjust our lifestyle to those new limitations.  It really isn't all that bad unless you are severely handicapped.

Ordinarily, we should be rather mobile into our mid to late 80s depending upon what happens to be wrong with us, with the understanding that we will just move a little slower.

What matters most is attitude.