Who Are You Calling Old?When Frank put on water skis in 1939 they were wooden planks with rubber straps screwed on top.Now he's past a century...... Your Age Is What You Make It! It's never too late in life - or too soon - to strive for a dream or cherished goal.With enthusiasm and optimism here's a short chronology of some who ate life up greedily :
Age 3 : Mozart plays the harpsichord
Age 7 : Chopin composes .
Age 10 : Thomas Edison sets up his lab in the
basement.
Age 10 : Jason Hardman creates a library for his town - Elsinore , Utah
Age 12 : Gertrude youngest world record breaker in women's freestyle swimming
Age 21 : Jane Austen begins Pride & Prejudice
Age 25 : Charles Lindbergh makes solo flight
across Atlantic.
Age 42 : Fonteyn begins her dancing career.
Age 43 : JFK becomes President
Age 50 : Henry Ford begins mass production of autos
Age 53 : Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister.
Age 64 : Chichester sails alone around the world.
Age 65 : Karl Wallenda was still wire walking.
Age 80 : Grandma Moses exhibits her paintings
Age 88 : Pablo Casals still performing
Age 94 : Goerge Bernard Shaw's first play produced.
The men and women envied most are those who accept age as a series of challenges. For them each new infirmity is an enemy to be overcome by force of will. Renoir had his brush strapped to his arm to continue painting magnificiently even after he was crippled by arthritis. At 78 , Goya deaf and his sight failing continued producing splendid work even though he had to wear several pairs of spectacles in order to work.As you enter life in the land beyond youth take on your projects that demand your best efforts but not so big as to dishearten.Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper columnist at age 16 and a framer of the Constitution at 81. You are never too old if you've got talent.Age has little to do with ability. So go invite yourself to live!
