Aging Gracefully

Aging gracefully has many characteristics, acceptance, confidence, caution, to name a few.
It's necessary in life to accept things that are by nature unacceptable. There is a struggle against it, even though usually there isn't a remote possibility of change. Growing up, aging gracefully, sees finally that struggle is futile, time is fleeting, and learns to let go of immobilizing nonacceptance in order to breathe deep the air of liberating freedom. If change comes, wonderful. If it doesn't, wonderful. It is what it is, this life that lies much less in our control than we like to believe.
Accepting the instability and "undependableness" of every day offers the freedom necessary to be ones best self. If there is stuff about me that I cannot make different and there is stuff about you that cannot be made different, then we are what we are and it is what it is. This is how the creator created, so with that fact I as one creation in the realm must have been created just as He pleased, or like any artist, He would through the vision of a loving creator continue to manipulate the masterpiece until it is exactly as He intended it to be, and in fact, He is doing that! This knowledge is the single best confidence booster! I'm not done, won't be 'till He says so and has put the finishing touch on me, which means I'm not left alone, His sculpting hands are always present, I am held. Life experiences convey this reality. It is a gift to be received most often little by little, and not until the time is right. If it were offered before the proper time it would be like a battery operated Christmas toy with no batteries included, never being fully appreciated and enjoyed. If one were to receive confidence too soon in life it would likely be gambled, with consequences that far outlast the immediate gratification of a careless choice. Graceful aging learns that it's best to flash the yellow light of caution until you've looked both ways, before and aft, and even then proceed cautiously.
Many many choices cannot be reversed, some steer down unintended paths with a current so strong as to be swept into a self created prison. It's a God given right, an American constitutional right, to be allowed the freedom to make our own choices that lead to the destiny of our own making. Graceful aging is evidence of wisdom gleaned, and instills the ability to choose cautiously.