Mis-quoted.

[Cindy Lyman]

Have you ever accepted someone's quotation as a fact? If you are over 80, maybe you shouldn't.

I was checking up on a quote supposedly by Ben Franklin <1705-1990>. "Many men die at age 25, but aren’t buried until they’re 75."

Turns out Ben Franklin never said it, but a similar quote...a better quote, in my opinion, is as follows:

"In October 1925 “The Montclair Times” of New Jersey reported on a speech delivered by playwright and author Gertrude Nelson Andrews who employed an instance based on the years 50 and 80:

    There is no reason why a person shouldn’t be young at eighty, but there are a whole lot of people who die at fifty and aren’t buried until they are eighty. We have a right to be useful and creative if we live to be 100. A man at eighty should be a masterpiece, not something to be thrown on the dump heap."

 Did you know You are a Masterpiece?  I say, allow yourself to have a mindset of being a Masterpiece.  Treat yourself like one, and demand others treat you as one as well.  I am.

~Cindy Lyman