How come? I'm often asked, @ the age you are do you still look so spritely, full of Vim, Vigour and other household cleaning agents, yet still have the mentality of a child? It's the latter that 's the key! View the world through the eyes of a child, enquiring, enthused, creative, tireless, fearless...all these the that we are born with , which are sadly chiselled away bit by bit in 'real' life till you are nowt but a grey and withered husk.
Keep asking, keep thinking, keep learning, keep loving...but above all stay true to yourself. There is no point setting your own moral benchmark, if you break your own rules, how's that going to rub off of others? I don't steal things, probably quite uncool now-a-days, and I have been relieved of many chattels in my life, but if they are going to break in and grab...I'd rather they knocked on the door and asked me for it. I'd probably let them have it, dig out the instruction manual, and show them how it worked. This is a trait I inherited from my Mother, her potted version of the Eastern Philosophers' 'give and don't take' does work....Karma.
There is only two things in the is world I detest, greed and injustice...It does get me, this hunger to acquire stuff, stuff...nothing on this planet, from ruck-sack to mobile phone is created from nothing, everything we own comes from star dust, plankton, clay, slime, gold, whatever, all stuff we find lying about, or which has growed..or been nurtured is re-fashioned into other stuff! and will eventually return to ashes and dust...we're just borrowing it in the meantime.
So why anyone would pretend to be a Samaritan just to split someone's sac à dos, to relieve them of their communicator or consul or whatever it was, gets me...what did they get? 8 years? not anywhere near enough.
Eternal youth? Talk to your children, give don't take, stand up for your rights, live life, love God, that is all.