Today's Wall Street Journal has a featured article on aging called "Who Are You Calling Old?"

It made me feel not only relieved, but good.

The writer, June Kronholz, asks "What does old age mean, and how much should it matter?"

Good question. Apparently it matters less and less to such people as Warren Buffet, 72, and John McCain, also 72, and my 82-year-old Dad. (Yesterday I caught a glimpse of him balancing on a ladder perched against the car port.)

So, as we age, what really matters is how we age.

Chronological age is becoming less important in this era of what I like to refer to as 'super seniors'.

However, there's a caveat.

Seniors get an awlful lot of discrimination from our socity. Just take your aging parents out to the mall and try to avoid getting run over by the stroller brigade.

But the article is well worth the read and it helps take a lot of the fear out of getting old. After all, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it anyway, except age as gracefully as we can.

Read Who Are You Calling Old?

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