What does it take to grow old? "You have to keep reinventing yourself"

What happens if you don't keep reinventing yourself. Basically, you either die mentally or physically but usually both.

So, being adaptive naturally like I was trained to be is very helpful. 

My wife was trained to be a heavy weather sailor as a child and teenager by her father and mother on their yacht out of Santa Barbara. This allowed her to learn how to survive on the ocean in a storm and be happy.

For me, my father and my grandfather taught me to survive in the wilderness so even though I was never an Eagle Scout because they wouldn't have thought that way, I was trained to navigate in the wilderness wherever I was on earth by line of sight. IN other words I was taught to look for objects to navigate by like TRees and mountains and I was taught not to go into forests where I couldn't see out because that often (if people don't know exactly where they are) is how people get lost for days.

So, I learned not to travel into forests that were too thick to see out of that were unmarked by any kind of usuable trail or signs.

The problem being many places we went had no trails at all then because it was still pretty wild in places like California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Washington when I was a child in the 1950s.

There were still many places where you could drink from streams safely but mostly no more unless you are drinking snow melt and even then you have to be careful now. They taught me to cup my hand and to use my hand like a cup to drink from or sometimes we just got down on our bellies and drank right from a stream with our lips.

It was much wilder then in the 1950s than now. Remember we are about 75 years later than 1950 right now so the world was much different then and there were many less people in the U.S. then too.

when I researched just now the population in 1950 in the U.S. this is what came up:  151,325,798 people, 

or less than 1/2 of what we have population wise in the U.S. now which is:  348.2 million 

So, as you can see we are much more than twice what we were then. So, it was much wilder then with no cell phones, no home computers no digital watches no hand held GPS devices no VHS tape players or DVD players so if you wanted to watch something on TV about 50 million people watched the same shows at the same time because NOTHING was recorded at least for home. At most there were reruns which you might wait months or years for to see what you wanted to see if you wanted to see what you missed the first time or wanted to see it again.

So, reinventing yourself is one of the many keys to growing old here in the U.S. and around the world.

By God's Grace