‘Aging Up’ But Not Growing Old

Let’s face it; we all have to grow older, at least from a chronological viewpoint. We may be doing so, but that doesn’t mean we have to start acting like we’re old, as a matter of fact. Look at it as ‘aging up’ but not growing old while doing so. What this means is that you’re only young once but you can be immature forever, as the famous Australian writer Germaine Greer once said.

In that vein, consider what you might do to affirm your essential youthfulness (even if you’re heading into your seventh decade of life) and street cred, so to speak. If you’ve never picked up a musical instrument like a guitar, you might want to consider doing so. And don’t worry if you’re a southpaw because a left handed electric guitar is readily available and ready to be blasted.

Doing something like that is a good way to keep cultivating youth and you should keep doing things similar as you add more years to your chronological age. What it comes down to is getting up, moving around and staying active is much as possible. Now, your body may try to convince you otherwise but it’s really only playing a game with you so ignore it when you can.

What this means is that even though you might have a touch of leg arthritis, for example, there are certainly plenty of things that can be done to help deal with that result of some broken bone you may have gotten when you were younger. It might be, technically, an infirmity of age but it doesn’t have to be a condition that makes you even older.

Also, there’s a universe of therapies and modalities out there that exist to help us as we age up. They can be a great way to keep youth from escaping us as we add chronological years to our lives. So, head over to that big outlet store for a jumbo size bottle of Kirkland glucosamine, power down a bunch of them every day and get out there and do something to keep going.

George Bernard Shaw once observed that we don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. The man definitely knew what he was talking about when it comes to youth, dealing with aging and how we can maintain a certain type of youth into the next hundred years of life we all hope to experience in this day and age.

Remember; do things that help you be youthful in more ways than just chronologically. Get out there and play or learn to strum a guitar or beat on some drums. Also, laugh as much as you can and do it deeply and for a long time. You’d be surprised at what you can make your body do when you’re suitably motivated, after all.