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We HAVE to Age But We Can REFUSE to Get Old
By Alice Wessendorf on 07/17/2011
I ran across this video and I just had to share it with you. It reminded me that although aging is inevitable “getting old” is not.
The performers in this video are definitely what you would call Seniors with Sass. They are all residents at the Clark Retirement Community in Grand Rapids, Michigan and they are doing what we probably would have called lip-synching in our day, but the kids today call LipDub.
The key to a good LipDub is to do an entire song in one take and create little vignettes filled with action as the camera moves around and past you. In other words, it’s a lot of hard work to get it right and nothing for a group of frail “old people” to be taking on. But these Sassy Seniors clearly had no problem because they clearly are far from “old.”
Staying active as we age…both physically and mentally…is key to aging gracefully. I think this crew figured out that little secret a long time ago.
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About the author
An enthusiastic believer in the power of natural healing, Alice has spent virtually her entire 17-year career in the natural-health publishing field helping to spread the word.
She is an advocate of self-education and is passionate about the power of group knowledge sharing, like the kind found right here on HealthierTalk.com. Alice loves to share her views on holistic and natural healing as well as her, sometimes contentious, thoughts on the profit-driven inner workings of traditional medicine.
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Luisfer
¡What a beautiful movie!. I currently live with my mother who is 90-years old. I am 60-years old. It touches me every day to witness the enthusiasm with which she lives. She says she is old but not elderly. Staying physically and mentally active is the key. I jog every day and I am finishing a PhD right now.
Luis
Boomer12k
I have a FIVE step program to Happiness!!!!
It help to do this in reverse order.
What does it take to be happy?
Enjoying life!
What does it take to enjoy life?
Having Fun.
What does it take to have fun?
PLAYING!!
What does it take to play?
BEeeeEEEeeeEEeiing SIIiiiiIIIlllllLLLLYYYY!!!!! And I gesticulate all over the place when I say that with my hands waving wildly in the air!!!!
So, Be Silly, PLAY, Have Fun, Enjoy life, and you will be a little HAPPIER!!!!
Stop poisoning your JOY!!! Let your JOY rise up within you and shine like the Sun!!!! Stop taking the World and its nonsense SERIOUSLY!!!!! The opposite of SERIOUS is HAPPINESS!!!!! We get depressed because we let the negative things in the world make us SERIOUS!!!!
Hey. It is a 12 step program to get off drugs and alcohol. That tells me it is over twice as easy to be happy as it is to get off of drugs and alcohol, which a person was "using" to be "happy" in the first place!!!!!! That is the big lie of drugs and alcohol!!!!!
Be well and Happy,
Steve
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