Hey Super !

They say to never ask a lady her age, but I'll be honest. I just had birthday and I'm over forty. Next year I'll sing, "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish," at my towel party filled with falling whales and petunias and don't panic signs.

So, in thinking about getting older, I visited my dragon's hoard of would-you-rather questions, and came across this beauty:

If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

I don't know, honestly.

I was pretty super at thirty. I still had no kids. I did an ironman triathlon. I had all these big dreams. I jumped out of a plane. (That is me. At the Lodi Parachute Center.) 

Forty(something) with two kids, I've got a lot more aches and pains and this thing called mom brain. 

Now, I'm planning on living to eleventy-one before I cross the sea to go on my next big adventure, but man, if I had to choose between keeping my mind sharp or my body healthy, I don't know what I'd do. 

You know, I currently have a notebook pinned to the wall next to the kitchen with a pen. And at the top of it is called "Happy knees and hips." The joints are aching, I'm like Batman in Dark Knight rises — only with physical therapy for may hip and wrists instead of knee braces. 

I don't know what I'd choose. I know that exercise helps keep the mind sharp, so I think in real life, it's not an either or proposition, so I'll work on the healthy body to keep the healthy mind. 

I need to squeeze in that yoga in addition to swimming, walking, and kid carrying. I'd also like to get back to lifting weights other than those two kiddos who always seem to want to be carried. 

Maybe when I'm eleventy-one I can be like the power lifting grandma. Sharp as a tack and stronger than ever. 

Emma, well right now, she's not thinking of the future, and thirty seems impossibly far away. She's still in high school. She doesn't know what her health or her mind will be like at thirty.

Being forced to choose, I think she'd opt for the sharp mind. She really values her good grades and learning all the things. Okay, so do I. But Emma really can't imagine starting to forget things and her mind slipping. She wants that young mind, she can always turn over the super-heroing to the next generation.

Stay Super!

💥Mel Woodburn💥

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