You ever get emails from people you don't even know? I think they get your address from other emails sent to other people. Any way, I got one back about aging after I had sent one by the same subject, but dealing with stroke survivors and staying young or not aging.

The only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids. If you'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 are never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key. We get into our teens, now they can't hold us back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

"How old are you?" "I'm going to be 16! You could be 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. YOU BECOME 21. YES SIR, finally an adult.

But wait, you turn 30. Oooohh Weee, what happened there? 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's changed?

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, the stroke zone, and your dreams are gone. In the wind! But wait!!! You make it to 60. You didn't think you would!

You've built up so much speed that you hit 70! After that, it's a day- by- day thing; you hit Wednesday, mid-week. You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; bedtime comes early, and it doesn't end there.

Into the 90's, Lord have mercy, you start going backwards, "Huhm, I was JUST 92." Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" No enemies, you outlived them all!!!

"I've reached that age that a good day is one when you get up and nothing HURTS." says H. Martin, and Lillian Hellman say, "The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead." I agree with that!!! We all hurt, but we are surviving thank God.