Alexis Stellato

Graphic Designer in the Chicagoland area, a brain filled with music lyrics and movie trivia, HUGE Walking Dead fan

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

@frankturner I still absolutely love this album!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Totally awesome #FTDP today! @fredonair @DJNurotic

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Finishing up #QueenCharlotte… “Ugly crying” are the only words I can think of to describe what’s happening to my face right now.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

‘Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control’ — The 100-year-old widow of a WWII veteran compared her Florida county’s efforts to ban certain books to Nazi Germany

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

How lucky am I that @thisismaneskin releases a new album right on my birthday! #newmusic 🎶🎵💜

[The Walking Dead @WalkingDead_AMC]

RETWEET if you're watching the Series Finale of #TWD starting right now on @AMC_TV and @AMCPlus.

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

My god! I have to keep reminding myself to breathe! #TheWalkingDead 😰

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Special thanks to Chris @hardwick and #TalkingDead for providing us with years worth of post-episode therapy sessions.

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

I’ve been watching #TheWalkingDead since its premiere, way back when I was in college. For my entire working-adult life (so far), I’ve had the same Sunday night escape. I just don’t know how I’m supposed to say goodbye. #TalkingDead

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

⁦@springsteen⁩ covering one of my absolute favorite songs 💜🥰 #springsteen #newalbum https://t.co/XxnKbnKgw3

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Love me some #FTDP @fredonair @DJNurotic @1035KISSFM

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@DanielNewman 💜

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I knew we were going to see faster, stronger walkers, BUT THAT WALKER PICKED UP A ROCK TO ATTACK AARON!!! 🤯 #TheWalkingDead #TalkingDead

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

#TheWalkingDead opening credits still giving me goosebumps after all these years. How am I just supposed to accept that this is the beginning of the end?! #TalkingDead

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Well, I just loved every bit of that! 💜😂🥲 #HocusPocus2

@BetteMidler @SJP @kathynajimy @actordougjones

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Best way to wake up! #FTDP @fredonair @DJNurotic

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

Star Stuff

#sketchbook #oilpastels #art @ La Grange, Illinois https://t.co/Y6CuZGpBEv

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

A little rusty, but I think I still got it.

#sketchbook #oilpastels #art @ La Grange, Illinois https://t.co/Ge92EAG4kP

[Alexis Stellato @LexStellato]

I’m just so livid and upset by it all! How can we still call ourselves the land of the free? #RoeVsWade