Grow up or grow old?

When growing up one:
- learns new things;
- enriches;
- learns from past mistakes and corrects his/her annoying habits;
- develops to a higher level of communication.

When growing old one:
- looses flexibility;
- cannot deliver up to contemporary standards;
- gets known for accumulation of past mistakes;
- becomes tired of new developments and escapes from new communication tone and channels.

Eventually, we all grow old, as our companies do, as products do as well. But my husband’s grandma, soon to be 90, is a preferred companion and source of advise to our generation and even children. It is all up to her constant will of development and curiosity to life. She was also taught in German-style discipline:
- get up early,
- wash,
- make your bed,
- exercise,
- have a small healthy breakfast …