silver threads among the gold

Yes.  Another trite phrase that popped into my head.  I've been finding grey hairs this year and find that so disconcerting.  Not sure why; I certainly don't feel older than 19 and have never been one of those who bewail aging.

Celebrated a cousin's 40th and another friend's 30th this past weekend and I find it hard to believe that they are that old.   

How about you?  How do you feel about aging?  How old do you feel?  There's a fun (and maybe eye-opening) quiz you may take to see what your real age is.  

I remember being so depressed when I turned 30, but it had more to do with the fact that I hadn't achieved the goals which I had listed when I was 20.  Once I threw away that list, I haven't cared about my biological age.  And as I'm having a good hair day--you're getting a ton o' photos--including the grey hairs.

 Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  

~George Bernard Shaw

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.  

We grow old by deserting our ideals.  

Years may wrinkle the skin, 

but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  

~Samuel Ullman

  

The years teach much which the days never knew.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together 

and your body starts falling apart.  

~Caryn Leschen

And I'll close with one of my favorite invitations by Robert Browning:  

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be...