Someone has rightly said, "You're as young as you fee." Youth has little do with age and more to do with how you live. While it's impossible to hold back the years, you can erase all signs of ageing from your life by altering your attitude to something more positive and living each day with vigor, passion and love. We share with you some expert rules to stay young at heart always. Follow these.

• Forget the nonessential numbers like age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. After all, that's why you pay them.

• Hang out in cheerful company. Avoid the grouches and friends who pull you down.

• Keep learning. Learn a new thing everyday. Never keep the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

• Cherish the simple things of life.

• Laugh  often, laugh long and loud. Keep smiling.

• Don't stop the tears. Shed, grieve, and move on. Get over all loss. Be ALIVE while you live.

• Surround yourself with everything you love be it family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies,  etc.

• Love your health: If it is good, maintain it. If it is bad,improve it. If it is beyond improvement, get help.

• Never take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the sweet shop, even to the next city or a foreign country, but never take guilt trips.

• Love everybody from the heart and don't forget to express it.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

(AW: Suchorita Choudhury)