Thank you both for writing this. For one thing, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the phot of a woman who is absolutely not 70! I encouraged my wife to let her hair go fully gray in her late 40s and everyone remarked how much more beautiful she is (not that outer beauty is what matters!). She's still - to me at least - the most beautiful woman ; no, beautiful person , in any room at age 72.

We started 3 morning a week aerobics in 2018 - 615:AM, she was the oldest, I was close behind at 66 and continued until March 2020 when the pandemic stopped all the classes.

We walk every day for 30 minutes, I (now at 70) can still beat almost any teenager in push competitions (just challenged my 31 year old friend to 40 straight pushups - I won:>)).

We go hiking in the mountains around here (Blue Ridge, North Carolina), and on most days more to do than we can keep up with.

I know people in their 40s who look like they've given up and are in terrible physical and psychological shape. I know people in their 90s who get out of bed every day excited as to what the day will bring.

Sure, genetics plays a part, but good physical habits - and surprise surprise - an inner sense of deep meaning and purpose (far beyond "positive thinking") go a long way to keeping us eternally young.