Jeralean Talley is Now World's Oldest Living Person at 115

Jeralean was born on May 23rd, 1899, making her 115, 10 months, and 16 days. Holy cow she has lived in 3 different centuries. That's crazy. She attributes all this to God. "That's the best advice I can give you. It's not in my hands or your hands," she said.

Just to put this into perspective, Prep was only 21 years old, Mark Twain would be still alive for another decade, and slavery had been outlawed for only about 35 years when she was born. Brooo she's really got something going on. And her mind is still "very sharp" according to a friend of her's.

I hope I live that long. I mean it's kind of a crazy thought about if you want to live longer but then it's like "hey you can go up to heaven" but that all depends on your beliefs. And if my mental health is on the low, well I don't know about that also. It still sounds like a cool thought though: being 115 and mentally alright, just ya know the usual aging of not really "being able to get around like [I] used to." Having a mental throw back to the high school days, even though that was about a century before the present. Crazy.

The closest I've come to knowing someone like that is my dear old Grandma Winkler. She wasn't my grandma but a family friend's mother, but we just called her Grandma Winkler. She died a year or two ago when she was just about a month shy of 101. She was mentally and physically doing great (she ended up passing away from a lung problem I think), but on her 100th birthday I remember she gave me some Suduko book that had words too small for her (she was 100, you have to give her credit for even doing those) and she walked over to her room (didn't need a walker or a cane usually) and bent down like a normal person and picked it up from the floor. There are some days I'm not really even up for that task.

But you know what? Go Jeralean! She's plowing along, living life. She's going on a fishing trip soon. Apparently she has no pain and is doing well. Woot woot for Jeralean Talley.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-area-woman-115-now-listed-worlds-oldest-30132937?source=hp