Staying Young

This past week we went to Disneyland with our grandkids. If that doesn’t keep you young, I don’t know what will.  Anyway more on that, but I found this somewhere.  I tried to find the author but didn’t have any success.  I thought it had some pretty good advice that we could all use to help us enjoy our upcoming “golden years.” 

How to stay young.

1. Throw out nonessential numbers.  This includes age, weight, height.  Let the doctors worry about them, that’s why you pay them.

2  Keep only cheerful friends.  The grouches pull you down.  (I think this is a big one.  You’ve got to have someone that makes you laugh and laugh hard.  See number 5)

3. Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.  Never let the brain idle.

4.   Enjoy the simple things.

5.  Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen.  Endure, grieve, and move on.  The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.  Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music plants, hobbies, whatever.  Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it.  If it is unstable, improve it.  If it is beyo9nd what you can improve, get help

9.  Don’t take guilt trips.  Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10.  Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.  AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.