You’ve heard over and over that age is just a number. But to fully understand that and to swallow that pill is difficult. I had a milestone birthday this year and still can’t believe I’ll be filling out the next column for the age section. My first reaction was “I’m old”. Recently, I read a concept somewhere and it changed the way I saw my age (and life) after that.
It said that you could be 15 and almost at the end of your life. You could be 30 and have only lived one third of it so far. And then you could be 50 and still have another 50 to go! Bottom line is, each day, we are one step closer to leaving this world. But you don’t know if that will be today, next month or in another 40 years!
What I learned from this is that I shouldn’t be worrying about how old I am. Instead, I should be living each day to the fullest, doing what makes my soul happy. I should not let age be a factor in what I should or shouldn’t do. Let me give you an example; I love to dance and perform on stage. So far, I have not let the factor of age stop me from doing it. Even if knee pain, less tolerance or other factors may stop me, I won’t let age in itself be a reason. The same applies to traveling; I would never want to stop traveling because of how old I am.
(Disclaimer: I am not encouraging you to be careless, spend all your money, quit your job and do nothing because that makes you happy. What I am saying is that age is just a number- don’t be that person who dies at 25 and gets buried at 80.)
Call for ACTION: What makes your soul happy? What are the hobbies you’ve done when you were “young” that you enjoyed so much. If age directly is the only thing that is stopping you, why do you let it?
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