Getting better all the time!

At a networking meeting I attended earlier this week I heard a very inspiring word from one of the contestants of the upcoming Ms. Senior Jacksonville pageant. The pageant has four stated purposes:

• To allow women over the age of 60 to acknowledge their inner beauty and enhance their value in the community and in society
• To promote community awareness, showmanship and value of our seniors' atributes
• To educate our community that our seniors are active and vibrant
• To increase positive attitudes toward our seniors and their well-being

If all of the contestants are as eloquent and vibrant as the one I heard it's sure to be a difficult choice for the judges. I'm just so pleased to see an opportunity for some of the misconceptions and stereotypes about aging to be shattered. Aging is not a disease you know. There used to be a commercial for something that said, "You're not getting older, you're getting better." Truer words were never spoken.