True: "no older person willingly agrees to leave their homes to be cared for, to be reliant on others, to hang their self-worth at the door of their one room bedrooms" at care facilities. We treasure our mobility, independence, self-sufficiency. How hard we worked for that from infancy to crawling to toddling and walking. Childhood is all about asserting the self and testing boundaries. Then in our old age we are back to walkers and other people setting rules and limitations "for our own good," just as it was for toddlers, whose parents constantly work to keep the little one from injury or death.... you are so right about feeling young inside our gray-haired bodies. The spirit is forever - the body, disposable. May the child inside us never grow jaded and old!