On Being a Senior Adult

I had my 84th birthday recently.  If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.  My 93 year old next door neighbor, shared these with me for my birthday. I’ve made a few adjustments, added a quote or two, but the idea is still there:

• “In my mind I am still 29, but my back is 54, my knee is 63, and my right hip turns 76 next week!”
• “I choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was “I bet a donut wouldn’t have done this to me.’”
• “I’m beginning to think that for some of our younger leaders, the wheels on their bus do not go round and round.”
• “My kids laugh because they think I’m crazy.  I laugh because they don’t know it’s hereditary.”
• “I thought it was my dryer that was making my clothes shrink. Turns out it’s the refrigerator.”
• “If a cookie falls on the floor and you pick it up…that’s a squat, right? How about a deep-knee bend?”
• “One thing no one ever talks about when it comes to being a senior adult, is how much time we debate keeping a cardboard box because it’s, you know….. a really good box.”
• “I understand that 60 might be the new 40.  Not so sure about that, but what I do know is that 9:00 pm is the new midnight.”
• “I’ve reached the age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.”
• “Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.”
• Finally, from one of my quote hero’s, Hall of Fame baseball player, Satchel Paige – “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”  Most mornings, I don’t mind rolling out of bed.  It’s the mornings when I have to get up off the floor, that matter.
• Speaking of aging, the Psalmist said of the aging, “They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing” (Psalm 92:14). I like that.