I found this in one of my old Bibles- it speaks volumes - When You Are 80 -We Have good news for you- The first 80 years are the hardest. The second 80 are a succession of birthday parties. Everybody wants to carry your baggage and help you up the stairs. If you forget your name or anybody elses name, forget an appointment, promise to be at 2 or 3 places at the same time, or spell words wrong, you need only to explain that you are 80. If you spill soup, your shoes dont match or if you carry a letter around with you for a week before mailing it, thats alright because you are 80. At 80 you can relax with no misgivings. You have the perfect alibi for everything. No body expects much from you. If you act silly, its your second childhood. Everybody is looking for symptoms of softening of the brain. It is a great deal better than 65 or 70. At that time they expect you to retire to a little house in Fla. and be a discontented, grumbling, limping has been. But if you survive to 80, they are surprised that you are alive, surprised that you can walk, surprised that you have lucid intervals. At 70 people are mad at you for everything, At. 80 they forgive you of anything! If you ask us, life begins at 80!!!!!!!! (Im not there yet, but, hope this is true) Im still enjoying the 70s and life is good!!
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:16:58 +0000
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