Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids?
Ifyou're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?"
"I'm four and a half!"
You'renever thirty-six and a half. You're four and ahalf, going on five!
That's the key.
You get into your teens, now they can't hold youback.
You jump to the next number, or even a fewahead.
"How old are you?"
"I'm gonna be 16!"
You couldbe 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . . you become 21.Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOUBECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happenedthere?
Makes you sound like bad milk! .
He TURNED;we had to throw him out. There's no fun now,you're just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What'schanged?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.
Whoa! Put on! the brakes, it's all slipping away.Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreamsare gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't thinkyou would!
So you BECOME 2 1, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 andMAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70!
After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80s and every day is a completecycle;
you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACHbedtime.
And it doesn't end there.
Into the 90s, you startgoing backwards;
"I Was JUST 92."
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over100, you become a little kid again.
"I'm 100 and ahalf!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
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