A few days ago, we attended an Aging Workshop at the local university. It was an all-day session and I must admit that I was disappointed in much of the presentation \u2014 not that it was bad, it just wasn\u2019t what I had expected or was hoping for. Aging isn\u2019t something that I think about much, but during some\u00a0 of the \u201clulls\u201d at the workshop I got to thinking about different aspects of aging.<\/p>\n
All through a lot of my life, in any given group I wasn\u2019t the oldest, I was always the youngest. I was the youngest in my first grade class and the youngest in my high school graduating class. During my high school years, I was the youngest business man in Maysville, Oklahoma (I owned and ran a snow cone business.) The first few jobs I had after college, I was always the youngest in the office. Of course, over the years that began to change\u2026 even though sometimes I don\u2019t act like it, now I am almost the oldest person I know.<\/p>\n
I am thankful that I\u2019ve experienced so many things \u2014 some wonderful, some very bad. I\u2019m sorry that I\u2019ve wasted so much time. I\u2019m sorry that I\u2019ve traveled so extensively and still only speak English. I\u2019m sorry that I didn\u2019t meet Claire earlier in my life. My reactions are slower, my eyesight is declining, people\u2019s names (more) often elude me and my energies must be used wisely. But even so, I often feel full of energy and not at all \u201cold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andy Rooney once said, it\u2019s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn\u2019t appeal to anyone. I guess that\u2019s probably true, but there\u2019s only one alternative to getting old \u2014 so suck it up!
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