Aging Fearlessly

We are living in an aging world, with 40.3 million Americans 65 years or older, expected to increase to 89 million by 2050. Population aging is changing societies on a global level, causing a wave of change fueled by this Silver Generation. 

As more seniors lead active lives, our philosophy of aging gracefully has shifted. 

Today is all we have.

The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, speaks of death as a "letting go of the ground we 

stand on and cling to everyday," how we are like swans, "clumsy lumbering beings" 

moving awkwardly until we enter the water, where we are transformed into the 

graceful creatures we were intended to be. 

Beginnings and endings, birth and death, origination and destination - between 

them our brief biography. Death is inevitable for all of us, the only variable is when.

This certainty should keep us focused on addressing our life in finite terms.