Old People Are Perfect

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Old People are Perfect Just recently one of my best friend’s grandmother died, and I’m invited to the funeral reception that is being held afterschool. She was 85 when she died. Even though I didn’t know her, I heard stories about how funny she was and how she would eat junk food like a little kid. Muhammad Ali once said, “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” If you are elderly and just sitting in bed waiting for your life to end, it would just be a waste of time doing nothing. You would be much better looking forward to something in the future and enjoying the current time. It doesn’t matter how old you are, you should constantly live life to the fullest. Two summers ago I went on a work camp with my church’s youth group. The camp was called Week of Hope; it’s a camp where you are in a needy town and you go to different people’s houses or different communities to help whatever they need help on. For two days my group went to help out this old lady with household needs. I forget her name but she was very sweet and with her were her second son and her grandson. During lunch time she would give us extra snacks and water, which were not necessary since the camp already provided lunch for us. She was very generous and she told us stories about her life. One of the stories was that she has survived three cancers and is on her fourth one. She told us that each cancer she had she would always look for something to live on for. Her first cancer she wanted to live to see her first son graduate, her second cancer she wanted to see her second son graduate, her third cancer she wanted to see her grandson being born and she is now on her fourth cancer waiting and living to see her grandson graduate. Her grandson is only six years old. This is extremely inspiring because when I am old I want something to encourage me to keep staying alive and

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