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Aging

This article on aging was written almost 20 years ago.  I thought it would be fun to repost it. Enjoy. Aging, a matter of mind By Connie Hawkins I'm having another birthday. At 50 something, they seem to come faster than they used too! I read somewhere that age is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter! Truthfully, the only time age didn't matter to me was when I was a kid. I could hardly wait for a birthday, then. I was even excited about it. When you're young, you think about aging in terms of fractions. When you're four and someone asks you how old are you? You never say I'm four going on five. You're more likely to say, "I'm four and a half." No one ever says their 36 and a half or 36 going on 37! When I was a teenager, I always jumped to the next number when someone would ask my age. I just turned 15, but I was going to be 16. Even when I was 13, I was going to be 16. Well, I was eventually. Ev...