First off, apologies to Gary. Didn't mean to rain on your quote.
I guess it's just rather overused in the circles I run in. I've always had a wide age range in my friends - even in my twenties I had a dear friend (non-family) in his 80s. I've seen so many struggle with old age and feel like our society has a culture of youth that pretends old age is not going to happen.
But I do understand the sentiment. I'm the 53-year-old guy who still rides the shopping cart down the hill to the car. Since this is so obviously fun if your market has a parking lot on a hill, it is an utter mystery to me that I have *never* seen another adult do this at my market.
It is tragic the extent to which many adults have lost their sense of play.
>>older than my grandmother
My mentor was about 80 when my wife died her hair blue. Everyone over the age of 50 said "What did you do *that* for?" I was curious what Bob would say. We met him on the street and he saw the sun shining through making her hair electric blue and he said "Your hair is BLUE!"
I thought "Uh oh."
And without missing a beat he said "It's so festive! I love it!"
And I thought "Oh yes, that's why I love this man"