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90 Year Olds Asked - What Advice Would You Give Your 32 Year Old Self -

Instagram post by Sahil Bloom

Today is my 32nd birthday.

Over the last month, I asked several 80-year-olds what advice they would give their 32 year-old selves.

Here's the life advice everyone needs to hear:

1.  Now and then, break out the fancy china and drink the good wine for no reason at all.

2.  Dance at weddings until your feet are sore.

3.  Tell  your partner you love them every night before falling asleep.  Someday you'll find the other side of the bed empty and wish you could.

4.  Don't fear sadness, as it tends to sit right next to love.

5.  Treat your body like a house you have to live in for another 70 years.

6.  Never raise your voice, except for at a ballgame.

7.  Do one good deed every single day, but never tell anyone about it.

8.  Time doesn't heal anything when it comes to relationships.  Don't delay difficult conversations.

9.  Find the things that make your eyes light up.  Do more of those.

10.  Always remind yourself that your track record for making it through your bad days is perfect!

11.  If something has a minor issue, repair it.  Minor issues become major issues over time.  Applies equally to love, friendship, health, and home.

12.  The most damning lie you can tell is the lie you tell to yourself.

13.  No one has ever argues their way to happiness.

14.  If you're going to lose a fight, make sure the other person things twice before fighting you again.

15.  Getting old is not picnic, but it's much better than the alternative.

16.  You may occasionally disappoint others, but make sure to never disappoint yourself.

17.  Never let a good friendship atrophy.  Send the text, make the call, plan the trip. Good friendships must be treasured.

18.  When you meet someone, look them in the eye, give a firm handshake, and call them by their name.

19.  Give everybody a second change, but never a third.

20.  The "good old days" are always happening right now.

21.  Whenever you hug someone, make sure they are the one to let go first.

22.  If it's raining on a warm summer evening, do outside and dance in it.

23.  Taking no risk is the biggest risk you can take.  Regret from inaction is always more painful than regret from action.

24.  It doesn't have to be perfect for it to be wonderful.

25.  When in doubt, love. We can always use more love.

26.  Looking presentable is a matter of self-respect.

27.  When you're feeling down, smile at yourself in the mirror for a full minute.

28.  Travel as much as you can.  Collect one token from every trip to remember it by.

29.  If there's something bothering you, ask yourself whether it will matter in one month.  If not, let it go right now.

30.  Stop trying to change people who don't want to be changed.

31.  You may win the argument, but if you lose the friend, what was the point?

32.  Stubborn pride is the downfall of many men and women. Learn to forget the slight hurts and avoid grudges.

33.  Do one thing that challenges your mind every single day.  A Crossword puzzle, math problem, anything. Daily "exercise" will keep your mind sharp for the long haul.

34.  If something isn't working and your gut tells you to try harder, first ask whether there's just an easier way to do it.

35.  Allow your kids to fail.  You will hate it, but it's so important.

36.  There's nothing wrong with shedding old relationships as you grow and change.

37.  No amount of money is ever worth trading for your peace of mind.

38.  If you kid wants to dance in line at the store, join them.

39.  Smile and say good morning to strangers on the street.

40.  Laugh loudly and unapologetically whenever you feel like it.

 

Old Eddie - "A Funny Old Duck"??

Capt. E.V. “Eddie” Rickenbacker wearing the

Congressional Medal of Honor. 

(U.S. Air Force photo)

It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean.

Old Ed came strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now.

Everybody's gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts...and his bucket of shrimp.

Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier. Before long, dozens of seagulls enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly.

Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, 'Thank you. Thank you.'

In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't leave. He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place .

When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away.

And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.

If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like 'a funny old duck,' as my dad used to say. Or, to onlookers, he's just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp. To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant .....maybe even a lot of nonsense.

Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Millennials. Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida ... That's too bad. They'd do well to know him better.

His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero in World War I, and then he was in WWII.

On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.

Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger and thirst. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were or even if they were alive.

Every day across America millions wondered and prayed that Eddie Rickenbacker might somehow be found alive. The men adrift needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle.

They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged on. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft...suddenly Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!

Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal of it - a very slight meal for eight men.

Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait....and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigors of the sea until they were found and rescued after 24 days at sea.

Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first life-saving seagull... And he never stopped saying, 'Thank you.'

That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.

Reference: (Max Lucado, "In The Eye of the Storm", pp...221, 225-226)

PS: Eddie Rickenbacker was the founder of Eastern Airlines. Before WWI he was race car driver. In WWI he was a pilot and became America's first ace. In WWII he was an instructor and military adviser, and he flew missions with the combat pilots. Eddie Rickenbacker is a true American hero. And now you know another story about the trials and sacrifices that brave men have endured for your freedom.

As you can see, I chose to pass this story along as it was passed to me from my father. It is a great story that many don't know...I think it exemplifies a couple of life's lessons to be remembered. You've got to be careful with old guys, you just never know what they have done during their lifetime. It also speaks to me about how we never know what we adversity we might face, but when we put our talent both mentally and physically together, we can overcome, but we must never forget what we learned and to remember to thank those that helped pull us through even if it was as something seemingly meaningless as a seagull and to pay it forward.

WIKIPEDIA

A Laugh A Day Does One Wonders . . . Enjoy!

This tooo funny!

Actually, in the more expensive places,

it's even more these days!

(Yup, I live in California)

 And one for the Seniors!!

Ageisms!

NOW that there's no mistaking that we're solidly into a NEW YEAR, here's a whole collection to keep you occupied till your birthday this coming year! 

READ SLOWLY! 

It's easier on your deteriorating vision.

 
"To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde


"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for." - Will Rogers


"We must recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars – more and more repairs and replacements are necessary."
- C.S. Lewis


"Old age comes at a bad time."   – San Bianucci"


"Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." 

- Jennifer Yanez


"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir


"I'm so old that my blood type is discontinued." - Bill Dane


"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. - Mark Twain


"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson


"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your retirement home."- Phyllis Diller


"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet." - Rita Rudner


"I'm at that age where my back goes out more than I do." - Phyllis Diller


"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." – George Burns


"Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up." - John Wagner


"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg


"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." - Kitty O'Neill Collins

"Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get." – Robert Orben


"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings, and you hope it isn't for you." - Ogden Nash


"It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle." – Unknown


"At my age, flowers scare me." - George Burns


"I have successfully completed the thirty-year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed." – Unknown


"Nobody expects to trust his body much after the age of fifty." - Alexander Hamilton


"The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S. Elliot


"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell


"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us... at age 40, we don't care what they think of us... at age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." - Ann Landers

"When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I'm labeled senile." - George Burns


"I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past." - Robert Brault


"The important thing to remember is that I'm probably going to forget." 

– Unknown


"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom
 

"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone." - Andy Rooney


"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." - Larry Lorenzon


"The older I get, the better I used to be." – Lee Trevino


"You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead." - John Mendoza


"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam."- George Carlin


"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap." - Bob Hope


"I'm 59 and people call me middle-aged. How many 118-year-old men do you know?"- Barry Cryer


"All men are the same age." - Dorothy Parker


"I don't do alcohol anymore—I get the same effect just standing up fast." – Anonymous


"By the time you're 80 years old you've learned everything. You only must remember it." - George Burns


"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." – Maurice Chevalier


"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth." - Conan O'Brien


"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to." - Albert Einstein


"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old, it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother that does." - J. Norman Collie


"You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt doesn't work." - Hy Gardner


"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain


"You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks."
- Joel Plaskett


"There's one advantage to being 102, there's no peer pressure." - Dennis Wolfberg


"I've never known a person who lives to be 110 who is remarkable for anything else." —Josh Billings


"At my age 'getting lucky' means walking into a room and remembering what I came in for." – Unknown


"Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read." –George Burns


"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Ashley Montague


"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." - George Burns


"People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit." - George Burns


"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician." - Anonymous


"I feel very young. At age 80 I had to learn to hold a spoon and walk upright again" - Ian Teuty

What Was It Like When You Were Growing Up?

 

Makeup Artist & Hairstylist Before-And-After Shots - WOW!

A Makeup Artist And Hairstylist 

Post 30 Before-And-After Shots 

Of Clients Who Told Them To 

“Do Something” 

By Rokas Laurinavičius

Denis Tymulis 

Kotryna Brašiškytė

"I don't know" and "Just do something" are two phrases that beauty industry workers have mixed feelings about. On one hand, they push you into a minefield—what if you and the client have very different tastes?— but on the other, they provide a golden opportunity to try something new.

Russian makeup artist Oksana Trunova has heard women telling her these words so many times that eventually she joined forces with hairstylist Olga Tarasova and they started freestyling these makeovers together.

After the work is done, Oksana shares before-and-after photos of the transformations on her Instagram account, and the images serve as perfect reminders that it's never too late to experiment with your appearance.

See original article here