The Girl who Never Age!

It is every women's dream to stay young. A period where wrinkles and flabby muscles does not exist. That way we would always stay youthful and beautiful, however, as most of us know this is just not reality but merely a wish, a dream, an impossible dream.

Would you believe if I were to tell you that such girl exist? Most of you must be thinking that I'm writing something stupid, make believe blog post. But unfortunately, this is not another make believe blog post but it's a real story of a 17 years old girl, who can't seem to age.

See the baby? Her name is Brooke Greenberg, 17 years old; the girl or rather teenager who can't seem to age. Even after the parents tried to put weight on her; growth pills when she was little. But nothing seem to work, she didn't grow any tall, like her other siblings. In addition to that, she is fed through a tube due to her small esophagus (food can actually go through her lungs and cause pneumonia)! According to the dad, when she was young she spent most of her childhood life (about 60%) in the hospital and she escaped death four times!This really sad for her. She can't age and is ain't healthy!

Though she is like any normal children who wants to be independent, but due to her condition, I think there are lots of things or activities that she unable to experience. But luckily she enjoys going school and have fun there; and home also...

People can't treat her like a normal child. The mother said that when people asked how old was Brooke,

'She is 12 months old,'

that's what her mother answered. She does not want others to looked at her child like some kind of science experiment. Her condition is apparently due to gen mutation (her growth gen; controls aging). Doctors are now studying her condition in hope to understand and also find a cure to it.

So anyone out there still want to stay young eternity? What I'm trying to say here is that we should enjoy what we have as some may not be as lucky as we are to lead a healthy and wonderful life, though it's human nature to want more of everything including the impossibles. This greedy urge of ours can be control, if you want to.

Just so you know, though some may say that the mind controls you, but do you know you can control your own mind?! Try telling yourself out loud, like when you can't seem to concentrate, tell yourself that what ever problems you are facing now can wait, so concentrate on your work. If you lose your job, that would be bigger problem!

P/S: I got to know about this through E, so thanks to them my knowledge of the world is borden!