Being young at 90 or old at 18

Harriette Thompson, at 92, was the oldest woman to finish a marathon last year.. Specifically, he finished the Rock’n’Roll Marathon in San Diego in just over seven hours and twenty-four minutes. Harriet is the perfect example of how to be and feel young despite age, the passage of time and the wrinkles that life leaves on the face and soul.

Old age is usually related to death, physical problems, memory loss, loneliness and deterioration of the body in general. But To age well, it is important to get rid of negative thoughts and enjoy all stages of life. Fortunately, life expectancy in recent centuries has increased by more than twenty years. At the beginning of the 19th century, life expectancy was around 45-50 years of age.

In 2013, the magazine Cell published a study prepared by Spanish experts in which the keys to aging are analyzed. One of the main results of this study was that by understanding and fighting aging, we also fight cancer. Aging produces accumulated damage to DNA throughout life and this process can cause cancer, diabetes, heart problemsdiseases like Alzheimer’s.

Feeling young is an attitude

Youth is a matter of attitude towards life. Aging is something that we cannot avoid, the only thing we can do is mitigate some of the effects it produces on our body.. Physical exercise, healthy eating, favorable environmental conditions, avoiding drugs, tobacco and excess alcohol are some factors that will influence delaying aging.

But also, If we maintain a young person’s attitude we can enjoy the learning process that aging also entails. To feel young, we propose some strategies:

Keep making your dreams come true

When we get older, we see that there are dreams that we have not fulfilled due to lack of time or because we have considered them impossible. However, having accumulated years does not mean paying attention to those who do not the expression “you are no longer old enough to…” and stop letting ourselves be so influenced by the opinions of others.

It is not about us behaving like teenagers but about not giving up those things that we want to do because we are of an age: studies, travel, sports, meeting new people, etc. Our limits, in most cases, are much broader than we think.

Get update

Fashion, technologies, society in general, continually change, so It is very good to adapt to changes and learn new things to stay young and with an active mind and in constant movement.

Protect your time and space

As we get older we tend to focus more on other people than on ourselves, but it is very important to find a space to do what we like, to take care of ourselves and respect the time we dedicate to those activities. It is important to achieve a balance between the time we dedicate to others and our own time.

Smile and laugh whenever you can

Laughter is something that will make you feel much younger, laugh at yourself, at the funny things that happen every day, Take daily events with a great sense of humor. You can even attend a laughter therapy course where you will have fun and also meet new people.

Being old at 18 years old

There are people who have had lives with very difficult circumstances or who simply feel old when they are very young. People who do not adapt to the changes in life, who lock themselves at home, who do not relate to anyone, people who are old without being old. But what is this circumstance due to?

People who feel old usually have abandoned their dreams. Whether due to life circumstances or by choice, they do not realize that they have a long way to go. Stopping having dreams and trying to make them come true is one of the causes of aging. It’s about enjoying the present.

Furthermore, these types of people usually have low levels of self-esteem, they do not love themselves, they do not value themselves and this makes them lock themselves inside their thoughts and not come out out of fear. Strengthening this self-esteem little by little will encourage openness to the outside world and help the person begin to interact with their environment and with other people. It’s not about having wrinkles or not, but about smiling at life.

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