How to live to age 114.

QUOTE from an email: "I believe..... that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life."

I LEARNED  one's man's philosophy on how to live to age 114. In the April 16 edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette there was an article on the worlds oldest living man. He just passed away last Thursday  in Montana. In an interview last October at the Rainbow Retirement Community Center he told of his philosophy of life. He identified five main reasons for his 114 years of life. Here they are;
1. Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face .("Every change is good.")
2. Eat two meals a day. ("That's all you need.")
3. Work as long as you can. ("That money is going to come in handy.")
4. Help others. ("The more you do for others, the better shape you're in.")
5. Accept death. ("We're going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die, because you're born to die.")

I can agree with all of them except #2. I need to eat more than two meals a day.

Mr Walter Breuning waorked on the railroad for fifty years, retired at age 67 in 1963, and then continued working until age 99 as the manager and secretary for the local chapter of the Shriner's. He lived in a sparse studio apartment in the Rainbow Senior Living Retirement Center since 1980. He would eat breakfast and lunch and then retire to his room in the early afternoon.He'd visit the doctor just twice a year for checkups, and the only medication he would take was aspirin.

He implored others to follow his philosophy. He said, "Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body.Your mind and body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time."

Mr. Breuning, I wholehearedly agree.

HUMOR for today from Mark Twain: A Morman acquaintance once pushed Mark Twain into an argument on the issue of polygamy. After long and tedious expositions justifying the practice, the Mormon demanded that Twain cite any passage of scripture expressly forbidding polygamy. "Nothing easier," Twain said. "No man can serve two masters."