Most people I know don't look like they're in their 40s or 50s. When friends reply that their mothers and fathers ages are in the 60s-70s, I don't see their ages as old. Betty White just turned 90, and she's still acting and still does great comedy.
Back in the day, everyone I look up to was older than me. Eating yam and macapuno-flavored ice cream were, for me, signs of being old. I then I had a crush on someone older.
Then I dated someone younger, fell in love with someone younger, have a nephew and a niece, and my youngest cousin is now in college.
The funny thing is apart from the occasional body aches and pains, and that a lot of my coworkers are just about to hit their mid20s, I don't feel a day older than 25. Must be the exercising and the weekdays-healthy food portioning. Or the mindset. Or the job.
It just occurred to me that maybe true age is actually the combination of our mind and body. While eventually our body wilts away because that is the nature of living creatures, we can choose to make our mind wilt away with it, or choose to will our mind to stay young and therefore, find means and ways to keep the body healthy and feeling young.
When I think about my age and how two mornings in a row I forgot where I left the food I bought from the vending machine, I say I'm really old.
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