Replies to 'Are You Afraid to Age?'

I guess the only thing I am afraid by aging, is to not being able to do the things I love to do.  For example I do hiking almost every weekend.  I wish I will continue for a long time and I have some big mountains in mind to hike in the future.  In my group of hikers there is a lady who is 77 years old.  I think the secret is living a healthy life with no extremes in any field.  Lately I had to go to the hospital for a small problem and I ran into a friend with whom I used to go to high school.  She has a perfect body and a cute rather sensual face.  She always could get any man she wanted.  Indeed she married a pilot from a very rich family.  She is still married and she has two kids.  She seems happy and energetic, in control as always.  But after 15 years of not seeing each other, among the few things she told me, she chose to say that her kids had her body.  She did not talk about their face or temper but their body.  (And she is not stupid, she did complete her degree.)  Well I am glad if they have a great body, really.  But I also realised that all these years I did not miss a shift of evolution from her part.  She used to be and still is so narcissist and I guess used me as others to feed her narcissism.   On my side as I enjoy my health in the thirties but I cant wait to see what I will understand about life and my self later on.  Every year I come up with a greater understanding of life which gives me greater peace with myself and the world each time.