The Truth About Aging Life is a testing ground and we are the test! KeyTo Life # 0.1

Let's talk about aging for a minute, it's a subject rarely discussed outside of judgment, ridicule or labeling. If you don't believe me, take a look at these dictionary definitions? –noun

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The particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally
qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.

5.

Advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.

10.

The average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.

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Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same
chronological age.

–verb (used without object)

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to grow old: He is aging rapidly.

–verb (used with object)

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to make old; cause to grow or seem old: Fear aged him overnight.

.—Idiom

If we change the way we look at age maybe it will change the way we age:

The universe is said to be billions of years old, our planet is said to be millions of years old, but who knows. Man and his finite mind often try to convince others of something that can't be proven. It's in our nature to want to be the ruler of things or to know it all, but how much we know is always suspect, and so is the age of the universe and the age of planet earth. There is one thing I think I know and that is that we use the word age and the concept of age to judge others, mostly for the wrong reasons, and most of those reasons are negative or counterproductive. How does that work in a so called positive thinking society? We judge ourselves and others by age, we predict by it, we make older people the point of jokes, and we fear it. Our attitudes about age must be changed. Men and women live to be an average age of 85 these days and more often than not much older than that, much older as of recent. It's a widely accepted opinion that it's due to a change in habits, exercise and medical breakthroughs.

Last year a lady died at 116 in Los Angeles, this year a lady in Cuba celebrated her 126th birthday and a 100 year old man who still plays tennis, laughs and hangs out with a younger crowd was profiled a ABC news this week. People are living longer, but are they really old? Well consider this, if the universe is billions of years old and the planet we live on is indeed millions of years old, then man's life span is really just a vapor in the overall scheme of things. People die because of gravity. Gravity is the cause of our bodies manifesting the appearance it has after a certain number of years here in the world we live in. It pulls us down after time; it puts undue weight on our organs, our bones and our mind. If you ask anyone who has been here awhile, say about 80 years, they'll tell you: it seems like it was just yesterday I was playing in a sand box with my friends, and other little kids, where did the time go? 

That's because in real time, in reality, in the overall scheme of life and time, it really was just yesterday. Kind of makes you think about what life is really all about doesn't it? You're here one minute and gone the next. Think about that as you plan your life out. Could life be a testing ground and we are the test? People should think about that when they ridicule those older than them, because they too are aging as they speak and heading down the same short road. Maybe they should be respectfully asking for advice about life instead. I say make the best out of your time here, live above the medium line, treat others as you yourself would like to be treated and above all practice tolerance, tolerance will take you further than any other virtue you could possess. We are all in this life together and we all have to die way to soon, so why not be helpful to one another and treat each other with consideration of that simple truth as we ourselves walk through a very short life. 

Actually, mankind never even gets the chance to mature before it's time to die. And when you look at that in the overall scheme of things, time, the earth, the universe and beyond, you'll have to agree. Nobody gets old; we just die young with the appearance of being old. We don't have to submit to that, we can keep going at a reasonable pace for years on into and beyond what the skeptics call old. Don't believe in them and their short sighted opinion, just live your life to the fullest, and do it every day till the day you do move on to the next playing field. Stay positive about your life, your age and your looks, because it's from the inside that you live not the outside. Stay strong and stay long. Keep moving; don't think about retiring, that's for quitters. Retire when your body has to retire. After all it's a known fact that during the 60's and 70's people who so called retired at age 65, died on average at 70-75 years of age, that's only 5-10 years after quote un quote retiring. Break those old limiting concepts and backwards thinking, go forward and keep moving, most of all don't listen to people who cast aspersions about age, that's the pot calling the kettle black. Keep up with the times and keep growing until you have to stop.



So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
          Scourged to his dungeon,
         but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
--Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)