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You're Not Too Old

“I’m too old,” a friend said to me when I asked her to go with me to the (gym).   “What do you mean you’re too old?” I asked.   “I’m almost 73," she said,   "and when you get to be my age, you can’t do the things you use to do.” I’ve heard that mantra from people younger than me, “I’m old.”   They talk almost obsessively about their age.   I wonder if it’s an excuse not to try anything new.   When one says one is old, what exactly does that mean?   “I'm old. I’d just rather sit in front of the TV, and watch the world go by, content in my suffering."   Satisfied to live vicariously? Does it mean one is ready to give up on life, sit down and wait for death?   Have they stopped living? Not interested in exploring new areas? Close minded, stuck in the past; unable to accept changes? Does that mean all the aches and pains remind one of ones age.   And prevents them from trying something new? “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” one friend sai