Today marks my 34th time rotating around the Sun, and it has me thinking about the passage of time, and our attitude toward getting older in our society.
Aging means different things to different people, but we all pretty much have the same concerns as time marches on. We don’t want to start carrying around butterscotch candies everywhere we go, we don’t want to get wrinkly or lose our hair, and we don’t want our bodies to get too old, rendering us unable to do certain tasks.
Each year, we see millions of people buying anti-aging creams and lotions to protect their skin from being damaged by Father Time, but what often gets left behind in all this worry is the one thing we can keep young: our minds. We forget that, if our thought process becomes too stagnant, that could keep us from being productive, as well.
While aging is an inevitability, aging into someone you don’t like is something that is at least possible to avoid. In fact, by consistently exercising our minds and flexing our creative muscles, we can avoid becoming what we have always criticized: the closed-minded fool who refuses to credit the following generation’s successes.
By keeping our mind open, and understanding the importance of newer generations coming along to shape their future out of the clay of society, we can stay our true selves for much longer. We can be happy and tolerant, and live peacefully with those who would otherwise make us feel irrelevant or in the way.
Stay Reasonable!
David