Iris Apfel

Getting old freaks me out. Really. I work at the library in Velp three times a week, and every day so many old people come by. They mostly seem so helpless to me. They must all be in pain or something. They complain about their grandchildren never visiting them, or their reuma and they have a really hard time trying to understand the digital library system.
I don't want to get old like one of those women from Velp. I never ever want to be in an old peoples home. I want to be like my auntie Marga, who lives in an apartment in Amsterdam. She's 85 and she still goes to festivals and shops her clothes at American Apparel. And I want to be like Iris Apfel, who is a great source of inspiration to me. I read a few interviews and articles about her, and she's so lively and strong and stubborn and expressive, even at the age of ninety! Sighhh.