Great advice from a 71 year old…

George Carlin on aging!
(Absolutely Brilliant)

IF YOU DON’T READ THIS TO THE VERY END, YOU HAVE LOST A DAY IN YOUR LIFE AND WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED, PLEASE DO SEND IT ON.

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 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. ‘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. You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump 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 sound like a ceremony.YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun 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 brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone…

But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!  So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and make it to 60. You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80′s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going 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!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let  the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s family name is Alzheimer’s.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. 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.
7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.Your home is your refuge.
8. 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.
9. Don’t take guilt trips.. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. 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 the moments that take our breath away.
And if you don’t send this to at least 8 people – who cares?
But do share this with someone. We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!

Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting…
“Holy Shit ….What a ride!”

I found this text very stimulating I hope you will also…Enjoy

There’s more to life than everything you already know. As each day unfolds, feel what it is to be alive more profoundly than you have ever felt it before.

There are wonderful ways you are capable of feeling, that you’ve never experienced before. Make use of the powerful creativity that is yours, and discover new corners of life’s richness that you’ve never seen before.

Get out of the comfortable rut. There is so much more to life than comfort and predictability.

Somewhere within the possibilities of this moment, you will find beautiful and fulfilling new experiences. Life’s abundance is waiting to be expressed in ways you have not yet known or even imagined.

The world changes constantly, and change can often be frightening. Yet it also continually brings forth new and positive possibilities.

Make good use of what you already know, and let it successfully guide you into valuable new realms. There are always new joys to be lived.

Here is a short story I read not to long ago that got me thinking about how lucky I was in life, since my retirement. I hope it will help you as it helped me

One day the father of a rich family brought his son in the country to show him how poor people live.

They spend a few days on a farm of a family that doesn’t have much to offer them.

On the return trip the father asks his son. “Did you like your stay ?” “It was fantastic dad”

“Did you see how the poor people live ?” Asks again the father.

” Oh yes” Replied the son.

“Than what have you learned ?”

The son replies “I saw that they had four dogs and we have only one.

We have a swimming pool that covers half of the garden and they swim in a large crick on the ocean.

We have lanterns in our garden and they have stars in the sky.

We have a large porch in front of our house they have the horizon

We have a domain but they have fields as far as the eye can see.

We have servants but they serve others.

We buy our food and they grow their own.

We have walls around our property to protect us. They have friends that protect them.”

The father was speechless.

The son added, “Thank you dad for showing me everything we don’t have”.

To often we forget what we have to complain about what we don’t have.

An object whit out any value for one can very well be a treasure for others. It’s a question of perspective.

Are you Thankful for what you have ?

Your friend

This one ‘thing’ that every successful person has in common — is they TOOK ACTION.

I know we’ve heard it all before – but this is the ONE thing that EVERY successful person has in common. It’s not talent, it’s not luck, it’s not intelligence.

It’s that they got up and DID SOMETHING.

And that’s it.  We all convince ourselves that we aren’t good enough, or that we’re too old, too young, don’t know enough, aren’t good looking enough, can’t do this, can’t do that…

STOP.  And start THINKING differently.