Name: These 90 Year Olds' Life Advice Will Break Your Heart...
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Knowing what you know today, what advice would you give to your younger self?

Should have spent more time with the children.

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I should have persevered more than God knows when I could have been.

What do you think that people in their 20s are missing?

Last year, we posted this video, which has over 600,000 views so far, but hundreds of comments on it are actually about this 90 year old couple.

This couple's words are something I think everybody needs to hear.

So today I am sharing an extended version of their best life advice with you.

We have a lot of friends who have passed and a lot of friends who are sick.

So we're lucky and we're lucky we're together.

So we have a lovely family and lots to be thankful for.

You know, I just read in the local paper that there's two and a quarter percent of the people in Canada are over 85.

That's a pretty good group to be in right now.

If I'm doing well for my age, it's because I work at it.

If you do your proper diet and you're exercising for me, that's what extends your life.

I have to tell you that I concentrate on balance because most seniors that we know have fallen down.

And if they fall down, they have very serious accidents.

So that's what I do to try and prevent that.

But now I make sure that I do it every day, every day.

What are some things you could go back in time and tell your younger self to do more of that you would recommend they do?

Something that my wife and I have initiated going back, I would say maybe 15 years ago.

And as she told you, we're 67 years married.

No matter if we do get in arguments, which happens at all times with all people, we try not to let it hang over till the next day.

We have it set in our lives that we embrace each other every morning, no matter what happens.

And it erases any problems that we might have had.

That brings us back to a decent level relationship.

The most important decision you make in your life is your marriage and who you marry.

They can encourage you in whatever you're doing, discourage you.

The best thing that I ever did was I met Joan and that was the best decision I ever made.

Well, I think that a lot of younger people are very self-centered and selfish.

By the time I was 30, I had four children, so I couldn't worry about going to restaurants, having fun.

We were paying for schools and kids and doctors and things that were, you know, more meaningful in life.

I think the kids today, they're all spoiled.

What can we do besides maybe, let's say, having four kids by 30?

What could we do to be less self-centered?

Maybe try to be more community minded, do some volunteer work, some social work, or just to be generous and give money to charity instead of your phones, your cars.

I know it's hard for kids today, but it was hard in our day, too.

I don't know if you're able to give advice, let's say, based on your own life, your own experiences on navigating your early years of adult life, your 20s.

How can we do that to the best of our abilities?

It's very hard, very hard for kids today.

And then, of course, find a profession that you like, something you enjoy doing.

But make sure that you you're the best that you can be.

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