RULE 51
Stay young
I did say earlier that if you were worrying about getting older, you should stop as there wasn’t anything you could do about it. It’s inevitable. So why a Rule saying ‘Stay young’? Well, growing older physically (and temporally) is something we all have to do and putting it off by endless surgery and the like is pointless. Better to stay young. And by this I mean mentally and emotionally. Billy Connolly made a wry observation in one of his shows when he bent down to pick something up and made a noise, a sort of bending grunt that oldies make. And he said he didn’t know when he had started to make that noise but it had crept up on him and he made it now. That’s what I’m talking about – all those noises and actions we make ...
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