Deborah Szekely, the Godmother of Health and Fitness, is 100 years old and Here is What She Thinks About It! | Chaz’s Journal

Listed here is the concept she delivered from Rancho La Puerta, the spa she began in Tecate, Mexico, with her spouse when she was 17 a long time aged.—Chaz Ebert

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Of course, Currently is My 100th Birthday

by Deborah Szekely

I awoke early at Rancho La Puerta, listening for the seems of something going on on the lawn outdoors my casita just as I did when Sarah and Alex have been minimal. “Shush,” I would whisper to them. “Let us get dressed!” Back then, we allowed cars and trucks on the residence, so I could hear several doors being closed gently. Team customers had been arriving. Tables were being being set up with significant pots of sizzling chocolate. The tamales and conchas were all set.

At 7:00 a.m., I came out the entrance doorway nevertheless in my bathrobe (a tradition) and was greeted by a mariachi band in total voice, trumpet echoing off the hills, large bass guitar thumping, violins keening. The patio had been turned into a bower of flowers. And a person expensive close friend, José Lupe, has introduced me one rose for each year of my existence given that I was in my 30s. What a superb way to start the day!

Dew was on the grass. The dawn slanted towards Mt. Kuchumaa, portray it a muted, mystical indigo. A number of hundred voices broke into singing Las Mañanitas, the Mexican tradition at birthdays.

Despierta, mi bien, despierta. Wake up, my darling, wake up.

Amidst all the greetings and making the most of hot chocolate and conchas, I recognized: I am a statistic and a curiosity—only 1.73 of us (of me!) per 10,000 folks live this very long. 100! To me, it really is only a number on paper. I can not accept it. In no way can I be 100!

My gratitude for my extensive everyday living is inexpressible. The quantity, nevertheless, will make no perception to me. Listed here I am at 100, but I nonetheless sense like the young female who arrived listed here with Edmond in 1940. I nevertheless make countless decisions in my lifetime, huge and compact. There is continue to so a lot expected of me, and I hope a fantastic offer from myself. I am totally unprepared for becoming this “outdated.” For a person issue, so a lot of people today appear up to me and talk to what my key is, what terms of wisdom I can share. And I am speechless.