Numbers Numbers EVERYWHERE

So lately I have been reminded what numbers have to do with us as people. Some times they are used as a guideline to measure formulas, or to guess the number of Jelly beans in a jar to win a prize at the state fair or local school event. We are given a number if we stand in a line up at the police station or asked to take a number to wait in line for the next service rep to assist us at the local DMV (by the way I hate the DMV waiting line).

We take a number when going to the airport waiting to board the plane, or we even use numbers to count oz when filling baby bottles with liquid.

Most recently numbers became an issue with what we all have to deal with in our lives. Its called AGE!. Some of us cant stand that every year we gain another number and it sometime down the line puts us into categories. We start with infants, to toddlers, to teenagers. We then become at some point ADULTS. As adults I didn't figure that numbers classified us as OLD (unless your my son who thinks that 34 is old). As the years go on, our numbers grow. We get another year older and so on. Some time in life we become ELDERLY. It happens. We use numbers to classify our status with age.

Recently I have been told that calling someone old is VERY disrespectful. I guess growing up I was never taught that this was a touchy subject. My grandmother was old, she died in her elderly years I think she was 80 something. I guess it must be the reality that if someone is offended by being called old, they must realize that their years are almost over. I will always believe that age is a number. Age is a number of what you are, not how you feel, and Old is only how you feel not what you are. My brothers mother..... Well she is an old retched.. well ya know, although she is 50 something, she is what she feels. I guess its the fact that she smokes and has psychological issues.

My father he is 58 I think, but he feels 40 or maybe even younger. I guess this is what happens when you marry someone that is younger then me!. So to those who get offended by the word "OLD"

I can only Quote the Great French Writer -Andre Maurois

"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul".