SECS 8 Week 6: How do I want to grow old?

Everyone on earth will want to age healthy and energetic and not be dependent on medication. This applies to me. I want a situation where even in my old age, I will be able to carry out tasks and do many things that even young people do.

Depending on medication is a very great setback because you will be limited to doing a few things and even eating a few things. This means that you will always need the drug to keep you going.

If you grow healthy on the other hand, you won't have restrictions of any kind. You already know all the things you have been doing that kept you healthy and energetic so you will continue doing that and you will hardly get sick as your system won't be accepting medications easily.

I'm not doing anything special to reach the old age I long for. I'm only doing the usual things I have been doing. To be healthy and energetic, you need to keep fit and also watch your diet as they both are let factors which will determine if you will get to your old age or not.

In my case, I have a daily routine of ensuring I go out for physical workouts and football training at least 3 times every week. More also, I try to eat good food I.e balanced diet food to get everything in the right proportion.

With this approach, I'm very confident that I will reach the old age I so much desire. I have also checked my health status regularly because they said health is wealth. For anyone to be wealthy enough, he has to ensure that he is healthy.

I'm not afraid of growing old. Growth as I have explained above is a transition from younger to older and this can be seen in all living things. There is always this joy when you have a year added to your years and that is the reason I'm not afraid of growing older.

When you grow older, you have more experience and respect. People listen to you more because most times the words you share are words of wisdom. I love to listen to people who are older than me because it helps me to learn much more from them.

I'm not scared of growing older as a matter of fact, it is a season or period of joy because you will be resting and then counting your achievements one after the other. You can at this stage advise more people better and also caution the little ones once they are going the wrong way.

Yes, my grandfather is about 115 years today. It had been a while since I saw him because I have not visited him for the past 2-3 years now. He lives in the village because he is no longer in service but he is still very strong and does his farm work perfectly.

I like to grow up like him because even at this stage of his life, you will still see him doing things as though he is still very young. The last time I visited him, he normally keeps us around him and then tell us stories about his service year as he is a retired police officer.

You will always see him in his old age of his doing a few types of exercise and some of which even as a young man I find very difficult to do. That is the reason I said earlier that exercise and a good diet will go a long way in keeping healthy and energetic even as you grow older.

He is my mentor and I will love to grow old like him because he is not on any form of medication and he hardly gets ill. Even when he is sick, you will still see him very active. I just admire him so much because of all that.

I will like to grow old very healthy and energetic just like my grandfather. He is a mentor indeed when it comes to this part. As old as he is, you will never see him behaving old instead he works even harder than most of us young men. I need such strength. I have started working on myself by ensuring I eat well and I also do regular exercise. I want to finally invite @msharif, @goodybest, @eliany, @waterjoe, @dave-hanny and @josepha to join the contest if they have not.