The complexity of Raising a Family can prepare a person for old age. Why?

 Raising a family is always a complex process. I remember when I was going to marry my present wife I took her to Great America to ride a ride called "Top Gun" because I wanted her to realize how raising kids and being married is a roller coaster (at best) (at worst it's completely impossible). on this ride then you are strapped into a bicycle seat and then you go upside down with your legs hanging free several hundred feet into the air. I'm not really sure why they call this ride "Top Gun" unless the bicycle seat is supposed to remind you of Tom Cruise in Navy Fighter Jet or something. Not sure.

For example, I remember a time when two of our children still lived with us and everyone was sick with the flu at the same time and there was only one bathroom in the house which made this very difficult for everyone when everyone had to throw up at the exact same moment. Though incidents like this might be rare in family life they do happen and you have to be adaptable enough so everyone survives this sort of thing doesn't just die or be traumatized for life by things like this. You have to find a way to take things like this in stride.

This "Taking things in Stride" also helps as you get older and when all sorts of things happen to you and your mate. Like last week my wife needed an emergency appendicitis operation out of the blue. This under any circumstances is traumatic for everyone involved pretty much no matter what. However, we were very lucky in that everything went fine for my wife so she is basically okay other than being a little psychologically traumatized by the whole thing. But that would be true for anyone.

The point I'm trying to make here is that if your family is a "Team" that helps each other through everything in life (father, mother and children) then all members of that family will tend to live to old age (as long as accidents or other unknown factors don't occur.

So, just remember that your family is training you so you can survive well into old age.

And if you live to 30 it is also very likely that you will live to see 90 too (or more).