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VIEWPOINT
Ego
and Aging
When you're young
(under 40 or so) there is always hope that someday you will get life in
order, and take the time to become all you hoped to be.
And,
when you're very young (under 30) there is much
more hope and opportunity, just not enough time or order in your life
to accomplish this.
Of
course, that's not true of everyone. Some fanatic weirdos
take the time to go to a gym, or exercise some other way. They watch
their diet, dress well, and always manage to look good and perform well
regardless of time schedules, etc.
Don't
you just hate them?
But
for the rest of us, and most of the fanatics as well, (I am assuming,)
we experience old age. That is, if we live long enough.
We
reach a point where the wrinkles start showing. Brown spots start
appearing on the skin. If you are lucky enough to have kept most of
your hair, you find that there is a lot more scalp showing between each
one of them.
Bags
appear under your once bright eyes. Your joints begin to ache and
rebel. Your thighs, hinney, and waist begin to sag.
Of
course, there are cures for all those things. At least so the
advertisers say. And in the early stages, you spend all your paycheck,
as well as money your kids say you should be saving for their
inheritance, on preparations to correct these flaws.
You
give yourself a whole bunch of excuses, and even believe one or two.
But no one else understands. They call it "Mid-Life Crises."
But
you know better. You're just taking care of
yourself like you know you should.
(For
more of this browbeating, see "Mid-Life Crises.)
Eventually,
in spite of the fortune you have spent, the debt you have left to your
children to repay, the foregone opportunity to better yourself in more
important ways because it was spent standing in front of a mirror
worrying about new wrinkles -- you grow old.
Growing
old means that you have passed that point where you have enough money
or energy, and the task is too awesome to tackle anyway, to go on
covering up the aging process.
This
is the time for you to take on a much more meaningful occupation.
Too
late for your body. To late to consider a great career. Too late to get
that PhD, (and the money for it is all gone anyway). Too late, but just
the beginning.
Your
hopes and dreams, your goals and good intentions, and every other
youthful thing is behind you.
All
that is left is: you.
No
more image to uphold. No more pretenses. All that is gone, and all
that's left is: freedom.
When
Hope is lost, so are your worries about it. Hope is a future thing.
Like the proverbial donkey and the carrot, it's always out there.
Always in sight. But for one reason or another, unobtainable.
But
there are things that are obtainable, that have
been set aside in your youth. They are the factors that make you who
you are. The real you. And
now you are at an age that if others disagree with you, or don't like
what you decide to do, they can lump it.
First,
however, you have a monumental task ahead of you. You are going to have
to do something that you have been avoiding all your life.
You
are going to have to figure out who the real you is!
How
do you do that? Where do you start?
Well,
you have already started in a small way just by visiting this web site.
No boasting. It's merely that here you will learn what some of the
Masters, Philosophers, Religious Leaders, and even a bunch of old,
uneducated geezers have to say on a variety of topics that confront us
daily.
And
I hope it helps. And I hope that you find the search for yourself
easier than my own.
But
now it's your time. Enjoy it.
I
said earlier that the aging process is something we all go through.
Obviously
there are some that even reach their 90's looking and acting like
Spring Chickens.
Don't
you just hate them?
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