Aging

You know I have heard that 60 is the new 50, and 50 is the new 40 so it was only time when someone in their 70's feels still 60. It got me to think about not only growing old but the style in which you accept the whole thing. Sure there is the physical nudges aches and twinges on the joints but I have seen many a limber person still able to bend over and pick up a penny in one go, I however do that now in stages so I am aware of the old phrase 'You got to use or lose it'

Bugger. So now I am slowly trying to gain back that agility.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with strength or carrying things so much so that in another lifetime I must have been a pack horse so says my husband on numerous occasions. I always load myself up with gear instead of picking up a few bags. Sorry I like to take as much in one trip whether its going down the stairs or when we are at a show.

So I got to thinking watching a show on aging just how close they are to breaking that inner time piece of aging ( don't cha just love scientific terminology). They have discovered in plants that they maintain a small population of stem cells and this is used to help their regeneration this is why we can take cuttings from them. Now I know they are trying to pass rulings on this and there is loads of issues moral, social, and not forget financial.

But