GETTING OLDER, a chance to get WISER
What it means to me: I have a past with loves and losses, I became mom, I dreamt, learnt, read books, met extraordinary people… All these made me, and still make me, happy though my life wasn’t, and still isn’t, a happy one.
GETTING OLD, somewhere close to a certain kind of “laziness” and neglect
You get old when you start saying to yourself “oh well, it’s fine this way, too” or when you don’t care about the way you look but you indulge yourself with things you considered once not good for your health, mental one included, or for keeping your figure youthful… In other words, you became “lazy” in mind and heart.
If you are aware and honest towards yourself and admit you do “indulge” yourself in this kind of laziness, then I think there is a path to go back in time when your mind didn’t behave this way; and nowadays many people do this after a couple of years of “indulgence”.
And there are, alas, many who aren’t aware of getting old in mind and heart right in their early years because of this life exhausting them in a never ending rat race, so they get old instead of getting older/wiser and acquiring the much needed experience to enjoy life in all its aspects.
Useless to talk about those who “indulge” themselves because they think they deserve this time and age in life when those around, society included, have to accept and respect them and their “indulgence” because they’ve got old! That’s truly being “lazy in soul”… and obviously, I have nor acceptance or respect for them!
JUST MY TWO CENTS, you don’t have to agree with me.
Cheers!
Addendum: these lines are an “in extenso” thought/idea contained in a picture/poster quote on my site and Kofi page.
