Forgetting people's names, groaning when you bend down and arthritis is not the only thing about getting old. We have the wisdom of experience.
Finally we know enough to be able to determine what will blow our heads off and the spirit to not give a damn. We may use that wisdom to be mentors or inventors. We have the freedom to be us. If we have sufficient money, it is a time when we can explore the Andes, climb the mountains, learn a new skill and free our innermost desires. If money is tight, we can start hiking, help others for a fee and still enjoy life. Our bucket list is there, money may be the interpreter.
We no longer have to worry about what the youngsters think, they are young, shame, but that will be fixed.
Remember we can now legally do drugs, as the doctor prescribes them!
As we walk out the halls of commerce, we have a new life, scary but fun, or scary and scarier. The choice is yours. We can go back and study history at university in order to visit the sites older than us. We can take that cruise, even if it is only on a rowing boat around your local dam. Age is not the limit, our attitudes are.
So in closing, I will tell you my secret- For the first time in my life, age means I can be irresponsible, our children are grown up, we can be reprehensible, we can be eccentric, above all we can be the butterflies and go on to produce the next generations flowers- we are that awesome!
So open those retirement wings, tell the youngsters that they know nothing and be as impossible as you want!
Love not wisely;
Live not carefully;
Dance even if they are watching; and
Enjoy fully.
Remember you are amazing!