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Healthy Aging-Why bother?

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Why do we want to live longer?

There is one thing about healthy aging that nobody talks about. Everyone ignores the outcome. Staying healthy is a futile race which we all will lose in the end. Death is inevitable. Still, most of us keep fighting to retain our health as long as we can. There does remain the very important question- why? Why live longer? Why prolong a life that gets more constrained and limited with each day? Why not just give up? The answer is that while you can’t stop physical deterioration, your creativity is unlimited. You can be better each day. If you work at it.

So what if you have no talent- you have time

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Memories

Ever since meeting the Richmond High School Class of ’46 last week, I’ve been thinking about how important connection become as you get older. Early in life you generally have a mission. It may be career. It may be your kids. It may be impressing people; living in the right neighborhood or driving the right car. For me it was all of the above and important as they seemed at the time, it was all superficial. Part of my mission in creating my retirement lifestyle is untangling all those competing drives and finding the ones that really matter. The kids are out of the house. They have pretty much decided their own life missions. Our relationships are firmed up. They are either good or bad. Changing them now will be a big task.  So now what?

Without those connections, old age can be empty.

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