Think young and act young. That is the advice that I try to live by, and that is the advice I give to any young adult, middle-aged adult, or senior citizen. It used to be that the golden years were a time to sit by the fire, not move, watch TV, gently waiting for sickness, awaiting the irreversible and inevitable arrival of physical and mental weakness, living on death's doorstep until that moment finally introduced itself.
If one is well along the rode of maverization, one is posed to work, play, make art, love, generate new ideas and live vigorously until one's last breath. This is thinking young and acting young. This motto is no shop-worn adage. It is the essence of a life well-lived and well-expressed.
This is not counter that admonition that adults act their age. I remember the teenage daughter lamenting to Ann Landers that her 40 year old mother was wearing a mini-skirt and vying for the attention of her daughter's male friends. This of course is not acting one's age.
One should be mature, decorous, respectable and well-behaved, no matter whether one is 28, 48 or 68.
By thinking young and acting young, the maverizer wants to stay mentally and physically spry and healthy until just before she dies. That is the goal, and she can still comport herself as a lady while thinking young and acting young.
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