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Aging and Physical Challenges
thrills, bills, ills, pills, and wills. So,
remember
--
nothing lasts forever (with
the possible exception of Elvis). You
see, the only way not to die is not to be
bom
--
and not being bom would take
all the pleasure out of not dying.
Don't be depressed at being 50. Did
you know that when Mozart was your
age, he'd been dead 14 years. I mean,
if you died tomorrow, you'd only have
one regret
--
that you died tomorrow.
By the way, did you know that on this
date in 1902, Eldon Meriwether died?
He was the inventor of the themJometer
--
lived to the ripe old age of
98.
6 years.
His burial was
a
bit unusual. They held
him upside down by his feet and shook–
him-down into the ground.
Look at it this way, you no longer
wonder what you will be when you grow
up.
And by now, some people
recognize that you were right about
a
few things after all; and others have
given up trying to change you. You
realize that old people know more
about being young than the young
people do about being old.
At 30, you didn't care what the world
thought of you. At 40, you worried
about what the world thought of you. At
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