Today I was chatting to my neighbours as we were packing up their house.  In their search for somewhere new they had been shown some “old folks” houses, as they put it.  They are both drawing a pension although I don’t know how old they are.  What we then began to talk about was how we neither of us had got to a position of considering ourselves to be old.  It was like a continually shifting horizon.  When you are a young child you consider your parents to be old but then when you reach their age you certainly don’t feel old and then in your twenties you might consider those over 50 or 60 to be old.  But when you get there yourself again it doesn’t feel like that.

You are the age you are and only you can decide if you should feel old.  Its interesting how what we feel, how we think and our behaviours and activities are all linked.  So if you decide that you will think and act like a “youngster” then you will certainly feel like that as well.  And remember that no-one can make you feel old.  You control your feelings so if you have decided to feel old today then that’s just fine cos tomorrow you can decide to feel young or intelligent or confident or excited or any one of a host of positive feelings that you know of as you have experienced them in the past.  And if you have already experienced it you can do it again.

So go on, decide to feel any age you want today and see how the people around you react.