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“Some studies have shown that human creativity doesn’t plateau until age eighty-three.”


A thought by Leonard Sweet (2014-02-21) from his book, The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work (p. 33). Tyndale Momentum. Kindle Edition.

He then said, “Other surveys indicate that happiness peaks at eighty-five—in other words, you get happier and happier the older you get.”

But somehow we believe that a useful life ends at 65.  When we retire it means that we are to just wait out our end.  But Leonard also said, that “when Jesus was the equivalent of our 'retirement age',  he set out on a journey to save the world.” 

He states that today “Fifty percent of all baby boomers (those born between 1945 and 1972) will live healthy lives beyond one hundred.”  “This dramatic expansion of life span has been relatively recent. Whereas in the 1890s, the average life expectancy for a male was thirty-seven, by the 1990s it had doubled, and now it’s even higher, into the mid-eighties.”

We need to change our perspective about age and effectiveness.  Just because we have stopped working for money doesn’t mean we are to stop making a difference.
                                                                                                                                      
One of the sad things to me is seeing people who have died before their time, they have died between their ears.  I remember the day that I got my first computer.  It was life changing.  I remember the time that I got Juno and was able to send and receive e-mails from my son at the Air Force Academy.  It was great.  

But so many have said that they are too old to learn new things.  I mean Facebook is great.  I connect with people all over the world. I have nearly 4,000 friends.  I love Foursquare.  I am mayor right now of 6 different places.  Also Linkedin, Twitter, Google+, Ancestry.com., and MLB.com are amazing. 

And then blogging, this week the Lord used me to plant thoughts into people’s minds and hearts in the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, and South Africa.  And that is just on this blog.  And I did this while sitting in various places in Pasadena, California and I am getting close to being 67 years of age. 

An effective life is not over at 65.  The best most effective days of our lives are ahead of us.  Somehow we need to evaluate what is happening around us, change our perspective and get with it.  Life is to be enjoyed to the end and the end can be longer away than we think. 

So are you really living?
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