Is our chronological age indicative of how we really feel or are there other factors at work? To be young at heart does seem to prolong our days. I have made the statement that I would fight old age “tooth and nail” , but that is more a state of mind than actually reality. I doubt that I will ever pay two hundred dollars for a bottle of face cream, but with my spirit I will try to do those things that I can do.

A case in point is a friend I use to work with. She was in her sixties, approaching seventy, and her mother was in her nineties. They were out shopping one day at the mall, and she told her mother if she saw something that she liked that she would buy it for her. Her mother said, “Alright, and if you see something that you like, I will buy it for you.”

They looked around for a while, but couldn’t find anything that really appealed to them. The daughter said, “Now, here mom, this would look good on you.”

“Why, that is an old lady’s dress,” she said. They continued shopping and the mother found one she liked.

“Now this would look good on you, ” she said.

“Now that is an old lady’s dress,” the daughter said.

As soon as she said it, they both looked at each other and laughed.

“Who do we think we are?” they both laughed.

I think this spirit has served them well and is quite possible one of the reasons that they are both still vibrant and healthy. Sometimes maybe you really are just as young as you feel.

Keeping an attitude of gratitude can go a long way in our pursuit of healthy living. I wish you all long lives of healthy living.

It has been a long year for some this year. A year filled with hopes and desires unfulfilled. Many have lost jobs and find re-employment almost impossible. Some have lost dear family members that have left an ache in their heart. And some find the daily grind a little more harder than usual. Whatever your circumstances have been this year, a new year has arrived, and with it the possibility to make all of your dreams come true. Let’s make this the year that we win! Win in 2010!! We won’t look back, but ahead to the potential to see all of our dreams and desires fulfilled.

May your new year see you reaching for everything you desire, and may your new year be filled with love, and may your barns be filled with plenty, and your joy full and overflowing, and may the kindness you extend to others return unto you, and may the lighthouse of your love shine brightly so that others can see through the darkness of their lives.

We may have lost in the past, but let us go courageously forth into the new year, and make this the year that we win. Let’s win in 2010!!!