80 is the new 80!
What A Year To Be Born! birthday wishes From David L Lewis
If you were fortune enough to have been born in 1943 you would be among the few, the enduring, the still young who reach Eighty years of age this year. If this is you, Happy 80th Birthday! Here are some birthday greetings you might want to review:
“Life expectancy for male born in 1943 was 72 years.” U S Census Bureau
“You know, you’re eighty now, and no one lives forever.” Discharge doctor at Union Hospital
“We really need to look into hospice care for you.” Jennifer Kruger, RN
Having had reason to review above ‘greetings’, I recognize one of these days someone will be asking me how I’d lived so long. Memory being what it is, therefore, this seemed a prudent moment to summarize 15 life-rules learned ‘by mistake’ which any young reader may be well advised to retain.
Three Rules For Living To Be 80
Finish what you start
Don’t start a fire until you know how you’re going to put it out
Never forget “This, too, will pass away”
Three Rules for Staying Out of Trouble
Don’t throw rocks
Don’t play with doors
Don’t hurt girls
Three Rules For Understanding The Human Experience
Follow the money
All Rules have reasons
All Signs have stories
Three Rules For Any And All Things
We only know in part. There is always more to the story.
Most people, most of the time, believe most of what they believe mostly because they Like the Teacher.
There always arises “a new generation which knew not” what had gone before. They will not understand the world that existed before them, nor will
Three Rules Written In Stone By the Sands Of Time
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
You Reap what you Sow, but what you reap will not look like what you sowed.
He who remains ignorant of the history of what came before is forever condemned to repeat it.
One last thing: Everyone knows we’re getting older; but, nobody believes it.
TheNotYetOldMan!
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