| Remember When?
By Cecil Hall First published in the Saguache Crescent 6 February 1997 - #45 Since my birthday falls on Groundhog Day, another milestone has just been passed. I have a hard time believing a young fellow like me, already has 73 big ones under his belt! The following quotation by Arthur Gordon expresses how I feel: Today is my seventy-fifth birthday, an unyielding chronological fact that I regard with considerable amazement. How did this venerable milestone come over the horizon so soon? Seventy-five! There must be a mistake somewhere. But there isn’t.Well never mind, I don’t FEEL that ancient. Perhaps this is because I borrowed an idea from a friend some years ago. When. I asked him to define old age, he said cheerfully, “Oh,. that’s easy. Old age is always fifteen years older than the age you’re at. When you’re forty-five, it’s sixty. When you’re sixty, it’s seventy-five. When you’re seventy-five, it’s ninety. That way you NEVER reach old age, because it’s always receding before you!” Not a bad idea, you know. Not bad at all. If you can’t reach old age you’re going to stay young, aren’t you? Well, sort of, anyway. Why not give it a thought now and then when you’re not feeling as spry as you might wish? Sometimes a little shift in attitude can work wonders! As our friend Barbara, has ex-pressed in her column, Saguache is “Unique”. We have a number of folks here who are in their late eighties, some in the nineties and a couple who have passed the century mark. I don’t look for any of these wonderful people to ever get OLD! |
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