{"id":164,"date":"2006-05-09T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-05-09T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T18:26:00","slug":"view-on-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/view-on-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"View on Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this mass-email so much; I decided to share it with you guys!<\/p>\n<p>George Carlin&#8217;s View on Aging<\/p>\n<p>Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we&#8217;re kids? If you&#8217;re less than 10 years old, you&#8217;re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How old are you?&#8221;  &#8220;I&#8217;m four and a half!&#8221;  You&#8217;re never thirty-six and a half.  You&#8217;re four and a half, going on five!  That&#8217;s the key.<\/p>\n<p>You get into your teens, now they can&#8217;t hold you back.  You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How old are you?&#8221;  &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna be 16!&#8221;  You could be 13, but hey, you&#8217;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!!!<\/p>\n<p>But then you turn 30.  Oooohh, what happened there?  Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out.  There&#8217;s no fun now, you&#8217;re Just a sour-dumpling.  What&#8217;s wrong?  What&#8217;s changed?<\/p>\n<p>You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you&#8217;re PUSHING 40.  Whoa!  Put on the brakes, it&#8217;s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50<\/p>\n<p>And your dreams are gone.<\/p>\n<p>But wait!!!  You MAKE it to 60.  You didn&#8217;t think you would!<\/p>\n<p>So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it&#8217;s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>You get into your 80&#8217;s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.  And it doesn&#8217;t end there.  Into the 90&#8217;s, you start going backwards; &#8220;I Was JUST 92.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then a strange thing happens.  If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again.  &#8220;I&#8217;m 100 and a half!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO STAY YOUNG<\/p>\n<p>1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.  Let the doctors worry about them.  That is why you pay &#8220;them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.<\/p>\n<p>3. Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.  Never let the brain idle.  &#8220;An idle mind is the devil&#8217;s workshop.&#8221;  And the devil&#8217;s name is Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>4. Enjoy the simple things.<\/p>\n<p>5. Laugh often, long and loud.  Laugh until you gasp for breath.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it&#8217;s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.  Your home is your refuge.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>9 Don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:<\/p>\n<p>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.<\/p>\n<p>We all need to live life to its fullest each day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this mass-email so much; I decided to share it with you guys! George Carlin&#8217;s View on Aging Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we&#8217;re kids? If you&#8217;re less than 10 years old, you&#8217;re so excited about aging that you think in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/view-on-aging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;View on Aging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebeach.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}