Celebrates his 113th year!! AND he wants another five years! Which seems to be a downgrade after last year when he said he wants to live "for infinity!" (The Asian Reporter)
According to the article,
"Japan has one of the world's longest life expectancies, nearly 86 years for women and 79 years for men, which is often attributed to the country's healthy diet rich in fish and rice.
The number of Japanese living past 100 has more than doubled in the last six years, reaching a record high of 36,000 people this year. The country's centenarian ranks are dominated by women, who make up 86 percent of the total.
Japan's centenarian population is expected to reach nearly 1 million -- the world's largest -- by 2050, according to U.N. projections."
WOWSERS!!
I cannot imagine living to be that old! Please don't get me wrong, It would be a blessing to live that long! But what I mean to say is that my mind cannot grasp the notion of living that long. That is a really LONG time.
He was born in 1895. In case you didn't notice, that's still in the 1800's! Imagine living through the entire 20th century and being able to tell your kids, grand kids, great grand kids and great great grand kids about it?
I cannot imagine living to be that old! Please don't get me wrong, It would be a blessing to live that long! But what I mean to say is that my mind cannot grasp the notion of living that long. That is a really LONG time.
He was born in 1895. In case you didn't notice, that's still in the 1800's! Imagine living through the entire 20th century and being able to tell your kids, grand kids, great grand kids and great great grand kids about it?
I wonder if he is content with what he has accomplished in his 113 years of life. My mom only lived to be 42 and she got to do what she had hoped for (I think and hope).
She was a Worshiper
She was a Musician
She was an Evangelist
She was a Mother
She was a Wife
She was a Comforter
She recorded a CD
She loved God with all her heart...till her very last breath
She was Happy
She was my Friend...
I will always wonder what it would have been like to have her here. I think alot of things would be different in my life and that of my siblings, even my dad's. I think we would probably still have taken our time with her for granted.
Yes, I said for granted. Don't we do that most of the time? Take the lives of others, even our very own life for granted? We walk around in our daily routine, wake up, go to work (or school), come home and sleep. (Ok maybe some people have different routines but you know what I mean.) And yet EVERY DAY we go to sleep knowing that we will wake up the next day. But what if you don't? That, my friends, is Faith. Faith that when we go to sleep we will wake up the next morning. We don't "hope" to wake up, we dont go to bed and say "I hope I make it through the night" or "I hope I don't die in my sleep tonight." We go to bed knowing that we will make it through the night and wake up the next morning.
If the latter sounds more like you, then you live by Faith. I live by Faith. I have to, otherwise I would drive myself insane thinking about things that are WAY out of my control! Or trying to control the things that I cannot.
This man has Faith that he will live 5 more years! And I gotta hand it to him, that's extraordinary! He is 113 years old and from what the media has portrayed, he does not not have any intentions of dying any time soon! I say, good for him! And wish him many more years!
Why not? He's made it this far! What's another century? :)
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