Today I bumped into a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen since she had a baby. I couldn’t believe how her daughter had grown. Her mother said, “Tell Gregory how old you are.” She replied, “Three and a half.”
This interaction got me thinking about the passage of time as it relates to aging and the innocence of children with their singular desire to always be older than they are.
The truth is that generally the only time we want to be older is when we are children. When we were less than 10 years old we believed that every week made us older. We weren't just three, we were three and a half!
Then we hit those awkward years where we couldn't wait to be a teenager; a real one! We might have been fourteen, but we were desperate to be sixteen or even better, eighteen.
Then the biggest day of them all finally arrived and we turned 21. Just the sound of those words was a celebration. But before we knew it we were turning thirty and life does not seem to impress us in the same way as it did when we were younger.
From then the years pass so quickly; we hit forty, we push fifty, we punch sixty, we rush to sixty five, and bang quickly into seventy, grasp onto eighty and do our best to live to see a hundred!
It seems that the older we get, the more we long for what we had as kids; a time when we felt enthusiastic about everything and just looking at a simple ant brought us joy.
Yet I believe we are never too old to revert back to the childhood enthusiasm we had when life excited us. All it requires is to make a decision to uncover and discover that part of ourselves that found joy in the simple things in life. No matter how old we are, that part is still alive within all of us.
Life is an adventure and is not limited by our age, but by our beliefs.
As long as we remember that life is not about limitations but endless possibilities, we can remain young forever.
BE BEAUTIFUL BE FREE
Gregory Landsman
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My Definition of REAL BEAUTY is…
B alance in life unfolds from the inside out
E nthusiasm lies within the way you think and feel about yourself and life
A cceptance is the path to making peace with yourself and others
U nderstanding who we are gives us clarity and wisdom
T rust attunes your heart and mind to know what you want
Y ou possess BEAUTY and all that it takes to create the life and love you deserve
‘Beauty is about feeling more, healing more, living more and loving more’
