A special thanks to the Steemit team and the entire Steemit platform for the initiative of the engagement challenge which helps stemians to relate and engage with one another from different parts of the world. I am happy to show my participation in the above topic which is "How I want to grow old" While checking communities this evening, I was captivated by the topic and curious to share on the topic so keep reading.

Smiles... This question has taken my mind far, imagining myself in old age. I want to age healthy and energetic, I know fully well that someday I will get very old to the point I would wish to rest but I believe I can also speak and prophesy good health to my old age, I want my old age should be in such a way that I would look old but healthy and strong, this is my heart desire.

Honestly, I am trying my very best to see that I reach that healthy old age. My desire for a healthy old age starts now, now I am still very very young, and the preparation for a healthy old start from what I eat presently, the work I do and the rest. To go straight to the point, I eat a lot of fruits to work thoroughly in my skin and entire body system against my old age to come. I don't engage in very stressful work that would make me look so depressed before my old age, lastly, I avoid using bleaching creams because it fades skin easily and when one gets to old age, the skin looks irritating which is very bad.

I am not afraid of getting old rather, I am preparing for old age because it is a mandatory thing to be old, I was once a child, and I am now a young person, old age must surely come and after old age, that is all about the life. Old age is an age for rest, it is an age where grandchildren surround the table and It is an age of pets from different angles. Pets from the children, grandchildren and daughter inlaws.

Most old people I encounter these days are not enjoying their old age for so many reasons, children don't allow them, I have seen a grandmother who still strives to feed her son of 52 years old why? Because the child was never thinking of taking care of the poor woman when she gets old. Dear friends, that is the only point they need that loving moment and with that they will always smile when they see us coming.

Yes! My grandma has been the reason I so much cherish old age and can't wait to be old, she is a storyteller in other words, she loves sharing stories. One thing I see as an example to follow is her loving heart, this might be a point to us all, when you get old make sure the loving heart for children is always their and by that, they would always run to sit with you and keep calling you granny, my grandma made me feel at home and till date I miss her so much ever since she passed on.

She is a very neat woman, she keeps everything neat, she always say unexpected visitors can come at any time and I would always laugh because I don't know who the old woman is expecting as visitors again in her live because she was very old before she died. She was indeed a model and I love and promise to portray exactly her person, especially in old age.