Age is not a number it is a state of Mind
How people perceive age was brought home to me when, on a family holiday, my nieces asked their father, my younger brother, to help them with the suitcases. To my astonishment he said ?I?m nearly 70 you know?. This coming from someone who plays tennis regularly, rides a bike and still helps neighbours with their decorating!
My reply, before I thought of what I was saying, was ?You may be but I am not?
And in truth I am only 68. My glass is half full not half empty.
I have been looking up search engines to find where to put my web-site www.effortlessaging.com and found it very difficult to locate a category it
could go into.
It is not really about health, although it is about wellness, it is not about aging although it is about the later years, Third Age, life after a job.
It is about an alternative lifestyle if you consider that the lifestyle that most people live is the express train to the afterlife. Nevertheless it is not about pills, supplements and various treatments which may or may not work. It is really not alternative medicine but it is alternative thinking
It is about people however a lot under this category deals with Weddings, dating etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I have placed it in several categories in the hope that someone will see it.
This week-end, in the Week-end paper, ?The Guardian? ( 28.Oct.06) the theme is ?The Oldie Issue? and I take the liberty to quote several well known older people .
?I?m fit, I?m lucky, I do as I please but?..?
Ruth Rendell, author, 76
?I?d rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer?s - and that?s what I am planning to do.
Tony Benn, politician, 81
?Mindful that it?s running out, I am determined to have the time of my life?
Sheila Hancock, actor, 73
?There is a Chinese proverb that says it all ?Painting is an old man?s art??
David Hockney, artist, 69
?Feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay?s a lot better?
Michael Parkinson, TV presenter, 71
?Drumming is about time ? and I?m still having a good time?
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer, 65
?I?m not tired of London yet and I?ve not seen Naples?
Dame Maggie Smith, actor 71
?I feel my age as an average between 39 and 99?
Tim Stoppard, playwright, 69
Ruth Rendell says that things that annoy her are people who say ?At your Age??
and ?Are you still?????
Admittedly of us say to ourselves ?I?m getting old? when we forget things. When I forgot things, when I was young, my age didn?t come into it. Maybe I had a lot on my mind, perhaps I was being absent minded, scatter brained, but I couldn?t have said that my age made me forget.
Since I retired in June 2006, I have been wondering - How on earth did I find time to go out to work? I?m still involved in voluntary and community work, I attend meetings and seminars on all sorts of subjects like health, healthy eating, wealth creation, e-commerce, property, joint ventures, the benefits of raw food, how to prepare gourmet raw food, the stock market. I am learning things that I wish was taught in schools.
I have been trying to tell my children about all the wonderful things I have learnt but all I get from them is wry smiles ?here she goes again!?. One of my son?s thinks I am up there with the aliens. He may be right.
Yes, I do believe there is a Universal Spirit; that we are all connected, that we are at one with the earth and should therefore take care of it. that people come into our lives to teach us a lesson. I believe that we can manifest our desires but are blocked by the negative blue prints from our childhood that our embedded into our minds; that life is what you make it and as you think, so shall you be. I believe in reincarnation and that we will continue to return to this earth until we have learnt our lessons and have attained enlightenment (Buddhahood). I believe that I am my brother?s keeper; what goes around comes around.----- Perhaps I am an alien!
But I digress. The purpose of this article is to show that ?AGE IS IN THE MIND?
I have worked with older people for many years and have seen the difference in the quality of life of those who plan for tomorrow, socialise, laugh and enjoy life from those who have decided that they are old, off the road, just waiting in the queue.
For those who are younger than me in years but older than me in mentality I say
?I will gladly give up my place in the queue to you. I have still got a lot of things to do!? We must not allow society to put us in compartments. We are very much individuals. Today?s 70 is yesterday?s 40?s. Old age is the new adolescence.
In my brief travels in the United States and the Caribbean I noted that most of the adverts on television during the day were for medicines of some kind; pain killers,
Vitamins, analgesic creams, cold remedies, inhalers, Prozac, the list goes on and on. Think how rich the pharmaceutical industry is. Dare I say it. If we all looked after our health, from an early age, the industry would be out of business. Ask yourself, therefore, Is it in their interest to cure us?
By the way, I find water very good for curing headaches.
To conclude I would suggest that LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT - So Make It!
