DOWNSIDE
Life is what we make it.
Your life.
Mine.
I have found that to be true in many ways.
My doctor tells me, as I approach eighty-eight years, that I am getting “younger” all the time. I know better than to think is speaking seriously and it gave me the opportunity to explain the system whereby I bring it all about or appear to do so. I decided many years ago that , if I should attain to the age of fifty years, I would then start taking one year off the total each birthday month. When I arrive at ZERO – then – out! Unless one has earned extra years under the bonus plans available.
Such a plan makes good sense to me. On that basis I am looking forward to my new downside year next February 25th. To what avail? That remains to it can be seen. We must to see what use I make of my Downside Teen Age years. They are said to be ”formative years”, you know.
Silly? I know that, but not nearly as foolish as worrying about ones advancing years leading to undue agony and frustration.
Growing younger is not the same as growing older. Nor, is it even a reversal thereof either. It is a new way of living which few people ever discover mainly because most of us accept the status quo methods and allow ourselves to descend into decrepitude in every aspect of human endeavor.
Stay busy ....physically ... as long as you can hack it; Ease off on energy use when bones and brawn no longer mesh properly at the right times. Stay busy mentally, as well. Set no limits on learning. Stay awake socially, as well ...read books, sing, write, play a musical instrument, gossip, if you've been good at that, and go right on expressing yourself so you remain you and do not become some sort of blah.
