"When's your birthday?"

Today is my birthday. Don’t ask me how old I am unless you’ll settle for my standard answer: “Old enough to know better, and still too young to care.”

Yea, I’ve noticed some changes as I’ve gotten older, but I get to choose how I deal with those changes. My attitude is a choice I make that either helps or hurts me as I celebrate a birthday each year.

I had a friend who was nearing 100 years old. She got more and more excited with each passing year as she neared 100. By the time she was 99, she was organizing her 100th birthday party, telling her daughter what to do and how to do it, and confiding in me that she wasn’t sure her daughter was making arrangements properly.

We were talking one day and she said something about “an old lady” down the hall having physical challenges. I asked how old the “old lady” was.

“Well,” my friend said, “I think she’s about 85.”

Celebrate your life and your age with me today and let’s listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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