Folks I message with, both on eons and plain old email, have remarked that my apparent ability to forestall aging both mentally and physically don't run short of limitation. One reason for that is I started late. Back when my equals in teen
growth were trying to achieve adult status by emulating sport and athletic older
Ideal abilities, I was enjoying the remains of later childhood. In truth there were heroes I thought were great but not what I'd be like. When my equals in age were looking to own and drive some automotive vehicle, it was more to my liking to
read of science fiction adventures or limit my physical prowess to things I was financially capable of doing.

Out of my secondary schooling I took to cultural things like art and music.
Then when the war years got me involved with a job working on mechanical parts for aircraft I learned how to apply the knowledge gained toward higher education.
All this time the accrual of learning was foremost so I could be competitive in the job market. It wasn't easy to adjust what I didn't have, to associate and best the
people with experience, but I tried. Once or twice a failure made new things
more necessary for later success. Sometimes an event changes an entirely
opposite viewpoint to what was once something sacred, not subject to change.

This, then is a credo advanced. Learn something new by plan each day and
use one's body to the greatest effect as age advances, since we only go this way one time. Retirement is not a negative but a positive time of life where
it is only a change of direction not a retreat.