Live Long and Prosper

Italian film actress Sophia Loren once said, ~There is a fountain and youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.~ Let me ask you this question, how many of you are looking forward to your golden years spending it not only along side your significant other, but with children/grandchildren, as well as your partners in crime otherwise known as your gal pas/best buds. For it’s indeed an interesting situation indeed to imagine ourselves in our formative years causing each one of us to wonder if we're still going to be the same person and do the same things like we used to back in the day when we were younger.

Without a doubt, people who are in their 30's like myself tend to complain or should I say joke around about how we're getting old. All joking aside though, the fact we've made it to/past our 30's is a testament that we've thankfully moved from our life is unfair hormone ridden drama filled searching for our own identity teenage years past our early 20's where one has the study hard/party even harder mentality to reaching the the thirty something stage of life, which for most women is not a pleasant age to reach. In any case, for those of us who are in our 30's you can't help but look back and find humor in the fact that when we were younger we used to make fun of the so called "old people" and now we've become the "old people" that these young kids today make fun of.

As said before in the quote above, there is a fountain of youth and it comes from our mind, talents, and the creativity you bring not only to your life but to other people's lives as well. Thinking about it, even though a person grows older physically the mind can still be sharp as ever as he or she creates something so spectacular/breathtaking/awe inspiring/ that it touches your heart and soul. Whether its in written form like a book/poem/essay or something made with one's hands like a painting/sculpture/drawing you are simply amazed at not only the imagination coming from within the mind of someone older, but the absolutely creativity in which it’s created causes you to have even greater respect for those who paved the way for us.

For the question can be asked to many of you out there, have you thought about what it's going to be like when you reach your golden age whenever that may be for you? If you think about it, there are certain advantages to getting older as you can get the senior discount whenever you eat out and you practically say anything you want that comes to mind because you deserve the right to speak your mind. For us guys, we can flirt/make jokes with young women we meet, possibly stealing a dance with them and the same can be said for women as well with strapping young men who they just want to pinch their cheeks. What it comes down to is that age doesn't have to define you when you reach the latter part of your life and if you can still think it/say it/do it then go right ahead.

On Saturday May 8th, 2010, Betty White became the oldest person at the age of 88 to ever host the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live giving the show itself its highest ratings ever in the history of their show. Fans made it their mission to have her as host started through facebook when she did a Snickers football commercial that also involved another ageless actor 89 year old Abe Vidgoda...yes he's still alive. The entire show was absolutely hilarious to the point where the SNL cast sang The Golden Girls theme song in honor of her but she flipped it turning it into thrash metal. In the end, you're only as old as you feel and though at times I feel like Betty White's age I hope, along with many of you, to live long and prosper as she has with the vibrancy/sense of humor/sharp wit that she hasn't lost throughout the years.