LIFE

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Actually tell the people that you love that you love them, and at every opportunity.

2. Surround yourself with what you love.  Family, friends, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, art, whatever. 

3. Laugh often, long and loud.  Laugh until you gasp for breath.  Add a little happiness to every day.

4. Throw out nonessential numbers.  This includes age, weight and height.  Let the doctors worry about them.  That is why you pay ‘them’.

5. Keep your cheerful friends.  The negative, grouchy ones pull you down.

6. Keep learning.  Learn more about technology, investing, gardening, whatever.  Never let the brain idle.  ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’  And the devil’s name is probably either Dementia or Alzheimer’s.

7. Enjoy the simple things.

8. The tears happen.  Endure, grieve and move on.  We all heal on our own time line, but we heal.  The only person who is with us our entire life is ourselves.  Be ALIVE while you are alive.

9. Cherish your health.  If it is good, work to preserve it.  If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

10. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the beach, to another country, but NOT to where the guilt is.  What’s done is done.  You can’t make it not happened.