Rock-Stars-of-Aging-by-Marc-Middleton
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<strong>Rock</strong>s <strong>Stars</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aging</strong><br />
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WORK AND PLAY<br />
46: Centenarians Like to Play<br />
“Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have<br />
to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day<br />
in my life.” – Dr. Leila Denmark, the world’s oldest practicing<br />
pediatrician (now retired)<br />
Play is serious business. Play is learning, imagining, pretending,<br />
competing, discovering and socializing. Play is therapy. Most people<br />
become less playful as they grow older. Centenarians seem to retain<br />
the capacity for and love <strong>of</strong> play. In many ways, centenarians are<br />
100-year-old kids. They have the ability to see almost everything as<br />
play.<br />
“Life must be lived as play.” -- Plato<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> <strong>Stars</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aging</strong><br />
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