Passion and Prostate

It was early, the sun had not come up over the chain link fence yet and the pool mates at the local Y were in the pool jogging. Don plowed through the water in the deep end talking to Hans about matters of the prostate and to my right two women were talking about passion.

Ok baby face, before you wrinkle your nose and let the milk from your morning breakfast cereal start to come back up in disgust, get over it; health and passion top the list of hot senior topics. Seniors have a lot on their plate and they need to be healthy for all those passions. You read "passion" and thought sex, right? They are thinking about, talking about, and yes, having sex; the latter has been  inferred at the pool.

The passions your parents and grandparents are talking about are post retirement dreams.
Stan of Naples Florida is 65 and a ball boy in tennis tournaments, www.sports1234.com/tennis/293-1-tennis. Bill, 87, has the record as the oldest man to reach the summit of Mount Rainier. He climbed the peak at ages 81, 82, 83, and 84. http://www.aarp.org. Seniors are excelling in golf, tennis, biking, skiing, swimming, running, body building and weight lifting.

Where they really get juiced is volunteering. Our communities would crumble with out their passion. You’ll find them in leadership positions, teaching, at the library, in our churches, driving school buses and mentoring the next generation. The pressure is off and seniors are following their bliss starting new careers, earning new degrees and starting new business ventures. It's never too late to get passionate. It’s kind of sexy don’t you think?