Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,*,*,we talk about the fear of aging,by Mitch Albom,Morrie had aging in better perspective.,All this emphasis on youth-I dont buy it,he said.Listen,I know what a misery being young can be,so dont tell me its so great.All these kids who came to me with their struggles,their strife,their feelings of inadequacy,their sense that life was miserable,so bad they wanted to kill themselves.,And,in addition to all the miseries,the young are not wise.They have very little understanding about life.Who wants to live every day when you dont know whats going on?When people are manipulating you,telling you to buy this perfume and youll be beautiful,or this pair of jeans and youll be sexy-and you believe them!Its such nonsense.,Werent you ever afraid to grow old,I,asked?,Mitch,I embrace aging.,Embrace it?,Its very simple.As you grow,you learn more.If you stayed at twenty-two,youd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two.Aging is not just decay,you know.Its growth.Its more than the negative that youre going to die,its also the positive that you understand youre going to die,and that you live a better life because of it.,Yes,I said,but if aging were so valuable,why do people always say,Oh,if I were young again.You never hear people say,I wish I were sixty-five.,He smiled.You know what that reflects?Unsatisfied lives.Unfulfilled lives.Lives that havent found meaning.Because if youve found meaning in your life,you dont want to go back.You want to go forward.You want to see more,do more.You cant wait until sixty-five.,Listen.You should know something.All younger people should know something.If youre always battling against getting older,youre always going to be unhappy,because it will happen anyhow.,And Mitch?,He lowered his voice.,The fact is,you are going to die eventually.I nodded.,It wont matter what you tell yourself.,we should find whats good and ture and beautiful in our life as it is now.,the only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life,is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.Mel Gibson,