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.