Some great on info on NYC from Wikipedia.

Yesterday we were at the New York Armenian Home - a seniors home for Armenians. It was filled with elder Armenians with anywhere from 80 to 101 years of life. Some needed the 24-hour care as they were physically or neurologically sick. Others were healthy but had no family to take care of them, a family that still provided love, however were not able to provide a great deal of time for their parents or grandparents, or those that voluntarily decided that this would be the last home they would live in.

It wasn’t sad, rather it was realistic. This is what happens to some when they grow old. I found it especially interesting that a majority of these seniors had much less energy. But the question is, are they so inert because they are here, or were they this way before they came here?

My grandfather was driving till the year he died, this year actually. He had incredible energy, even after struggling numerous times with cancer and living alone for 7 years after his wife’s passing.

Then there is my mother who is the most energetic of all the people I have ever met. She is constantly going, always working for philanthropic causes, making sure her 2 sons are happy and in the right direction, and making sure her husband is happy.

I am currently working with these interns who are just a few years behind my age and my stage in life. The effort is to give these interns both perspective and experience in a world away from the books and the protection of the classroom. Along with their experience, being in an authority position above them also gives me a great deal of perspective about where I am, and where I am going.

Coming full circle, the experience yesterday showed each of us a possible future. And the possible being tangible can greatly help you understand how to make decisions for your future. It’s like how architects use models to see their buildings in three dimensions before they actually build them. We must do our best to understand what is possible to make the right decisions on how to be happiest throughout our lives.