I Want To Grow Old With You

Gerontology – The Study of Aging

Age: It’s what the poor and the rich have.
Money can’t stop it. It can mask some of its effects (Charice: botox. really?) but nothing more.

Many are afraid of this wonder.
Some even cease to celebrate birthdays after a certain age.
(I am not one of these people. Plan to be invited to my gatherings annually. Don’t judge me if I have themed parties well into my 60s. Wild Wild West and 63 totally go together.)

We should instead embrace it.
Life is a sporadic wonder. Some of will get to spend 84 years in it.
Some of us will get to spend that time with someone who becomes part of us.
Ingrid and Robbie are some who have penned it best:

“I’d buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair.
Sew on patches to all you tear….

I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you

I’ll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you

….Cause I love you more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.”

Let’s get excited about getting older.
According to this http://www.livingto100.com/
I’m living to be 93.

This calculator isn’t God.
Only He determines our time.
I, however, am going to embrace, enjoy, and invest in lives these years.
Who’s with me?

I’ll need Wild Wild West attendees after all.

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