Life doesn't work like the deli counter. We don't all go out in the same order we came in.

I am 48, three years older than my mother was when she died. Unlike my mother, I am not overweight, diabetic, nor do I share her aversion to doctors. She made her choices and I made mine -- in no small part in response to hers. In the scorecard of life, so far I'm ahead.

I prefer to fight the aging process -- which, I'd like to point out, has nothing to do with dressing like a 20-something or running for Botox every time I spot a wrinkle.

I view aging -- at least from a medical perspective -- as the losing battle we all fight against our progressive decline. If you don't fight it, you lose the battle faster.

Yet every time I read something about "anti-aging," I told myself that there is nothing wrong with growing older. But I take some exception to that thinking. There is actually a lot wrong with growing older when it HURTS,WHEN YOU CAN'T DO THE THINGS YOU STILL WANT TO DO OR WHEN YOU MUST FACE THOSE DIFFICULT CHALLENGES WITHOUT HELP.(That's my father's cause of depression that so early took his life.)

I have no illusions about my inability to live forever.And this isn't a matter of not being comfortable with who I am. Who I am is someone who intends to die with my dancing shoes on, have many more adventures and be everyone's favorite great-grandma. But to do that requires I try and keep all my moving parts in tip-top shape.

Of course I make concessions to aging.Though I still does'nt wear glasses to drive at night but only reading glasses on a not so regular basis now while working on the computer.With my diet, I started to regulate my food intake,and oh, a little pain on my knees when i get so tired of working..

I don't treat aging as a disease, but trying to slow down process in which your limitations eventually overtake you is very different than trying to recapture your youth. I don't diet for vanity; I diet to keep my arteries unclogged and improve my overall health. I don't exercise in order to wear a bikini; I exercise to keep my stress level down and my bones strong. And I devour anti-aging tips not because I want to look like I'm 30, but because I want to make sure someone hasn't come up with something I don't know about.

Anti-aging speaks to my attitude about growing older. And SCIENCE SAY'S THAT WHAT I THINK ABOUT AGING WILL, IN ITSELF, BE A FACTOR IN DETERMINING HOW IT GOES FOR ME. I don't see myself as old, don't consider myself old and I don't call myself old.
Research said that, ADULTS WITH POSITIVE ATTITUDES ABOUT AGING LIVED LONGER THAN THEIR PEERS WHO HAD NEGATIVE ATTITUDES.

All of which proves the old saw: You are as young as you feel. And I, for one, intend on staying the course.:-)