Age need not be a deterrent to the pursuit of our goal. Nor should it hamper our enthusiasm in furtherance to continue improvement or excellence of it. Matter of fact is, we can even start venturing on new ideas. Starting young or not-so-young in aiming for a goal makes negligible or no difference. What matters is our attitude towards our aim, that it be positive. We must not deduce thinking that we might not realize our goal due to our age. We must leave everything in the hands of the Almighty Creator whom we trust. He is in the best position to know what is best for us. God did not plant an idea into our mind with a pre-condition that we must be young to aim for a certain goal. Otherwise, He wouldn’t have done so.
Faith and trust in the Almighty should be the factors that determine our decision to continue pursuing our goal, not our age.
Growing old is all in the mind if we let it be. Yes, it’s visible when we grow old. But these changes are only on our physique. Our actions and reflexes may be slower than before. Our hair may be thinner and gray. Our skin may be dry and wrinkled. But our mind and spirit will remain young and vibrant as ever, even wiser than ever.
Speaking of old age, allow me to tickle your funny bone. There’s this funny thing about growing old, we can’t move our hands and feet when we want them to (if we’ve got arthritis), but they keep on moving when we don’t want them to (uncontrolled shaking and trembling). Speaking of thinning hair when we grow old, we beg our hair to stay on our head. It’s the opposite when we were young, we beg our thick and unruly hair to leave our head.
Only the physical side of us gets old, the mental and spiritual sides are as young as ever.
Age or aging, as defined in the dictionary is synonymous to growing old. ‘Growing’ is a progressive word, so there is every reason for us to go with the flow, to be optimistic.
With age comes wisdom, maturity, and experience. How we choose to mature depends on how we think of ourselves. If we think we are non-productive, worn-out, and ruggedly unattractive, ridden with health problems, we will what we think we are. However, if we welcome age with a positive outlook, having emerged a wiser and more experienced person, full of wisdom and vitality in spite of age, this chapter of our life will bring even more excitement, looking forward to share our experiences with our grandchildren, the younger generation. What we choose to be, we will be. Only we can control ourselves. I see no reason why we would choose to be gloomy, feeling self-pity, and unproductive in senior age when we have the option to emerge bright and upbeat.