You are as old as you feel

I seem to have a penchant for quoting very cliché quotes... But bear with me please, I got some really funny stuff about age I just have to share with you!

The other day I got an email forward from a friend. I am not really a fan of forwards (please note, friends!) but this particular one really tickled me. Perhaps because it hit so close to home?

It was a really long one, but I will just pick out what I thought were the choicest parts.

One of them goes like this:

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about ageing that you think in fractions. 'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half (and all the ladies in the house said....).

Another one said this:

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. 'How old are you?' 'I'm going to be 16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're going to be 16! And then the greatest day of your life .... . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

It went on and on through the different landmarks of age, but the part that really got me in stitches was this one:

You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30 ; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there Into the 90s, you start going backwards; 'I Was JUST 92.'

Now back to the moral of the story - You are as old as you feel or as young as you wanna be. My advice to you? Throw out all the non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Remember, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.