Hi Mary,

Good list of ten things about growing old - No make that eleven things.

Know what bothers me about growing old in North America?

The billions of dollars spend by huge companies trying to convince us all that it is a terrible thing to see one wrinkle or one gray hair or one pimple.  Shame on us for believing such trash.

There is nothing wrong with getting old. There is nothing wrong with looking old.  The important thing is that we grow old gracefully and graciously.  Some cultures recognize the importance of the elderly.  Others foolishly try to do the impossible, they try to cling to youth and to the appearance of youth.

A roomful of people were asked to choose what age they would like to be, if they had the power to be any age they wanted.  Everyone wrote down what age they would like to be right now. While discussing the answers it was discovered that only one person had chosen their current age as the age they wanted to be.

Everyone else wanted to be something that they were not.