Exploring Happiness #39- Aging Poem by June Stepansky

We are all aging every day whether we go from 29 to 30 or 59 to 60.
How we decide to deal with the aging process determines whether we will feel anger and despair or whether
we will decide to accept those changes which will inevitably occur as we age.
If we take care of our health, retain our self-esteem, continue to develop our mental capacities and participate in activities which we find enjoyable, then aging will become less of a burden and more of a challenge.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly,
cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,
and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel