Healthy aging can look different to different people.

Every person is made up of genes in DNA. These genes impact every part of our life. In this context some genes decide how “well” we age. I use the quotation marks because the wellness of our aging is option based. Some people do not like aging, so they see good aging as looking younger than you are. My idea of healthy aging is that if you are happy in your old age and if you are happy with your life and what you did with it. I feel like a lot of people think that healthy aging is just about physical things. Who doesn’t have wrinkles, who can still do everything that they used to be able to? I think that this is part of healthy aging. I think if you look better you feel better and will be happier with yourself and if you can do everything you used to is a bonus to that. Being active can improve overall health so that is also important. Overall, I think the most important part of aging is being happy with yourself and how your life turned out. If you are not happy with how your life turned out are you going to put as much effort into yourself as you should? Probably not. There are multiple things that have contributed to my perspective of healthy aging. One of the things that contributed is my grandparents. My grandparents live next door to me and my family, so I get to see them very often. Being able to do that has gave me the opportunity to watch as they have gotten older and what that intel’s. Another thing that has contributed is my parents. As I am getting older, they are too. Being so close to my parents and grandparents has given me the opportunity to see healthy aging in different stages of life.