Getting old. When you are young it sounds very scary, and as you age “old” is a moving train that is always 10 or 20 years ahead of you.
I am 51. To the young I am old. To the 80 years old’s I am probably still young. One thing I do know is that in my mind I cannot be 51 because I haven’t done half the things in life I want to do. But my body is starting to tell me otherwise.
Overall I am a pretty healthy woman, but I don’t have as much energy or strength as I used to be. Worst of all my memory sometimes fails me. Those words, just on the tip of my tongue …
At The Art Of Healthy Aging we share our discoveries in the field of healthy aging. What do the young, vibrant 100 year old’s know that the rest of us don’t? Aging is inevitable, but is decline?
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” – Robert Browning
I first heard these words from Robert Browning about 30 years ago and I thought they were the most romantic words ever written. I still do.
Susan Wallis, Editor
