The gain at the Gate:
As we get older we shed the layers of fear of aging, fear of failure,fear of illness or disease.
As we get older we lose the need for being right all the time…age has taught us the fallacy of that nonsense.
And as we age we gain insight,understanding and wisdom from the losses and failures.
We finally gain humility recognizing the brevity of the journey and the importance of each day.
We learn to appreciate the now…not as some new age phrase..but for the truth that it is.
We learn not to waste minutes on the negative and the false we come across in our life.
In fact our age is the opening to the freedom, the liberation…the salvation itself.
We are presented with a moment in time to release ourselves from the chains that tie us up in the foolishness of the day that parodies itself as relevant. We are in fact given the opportunity to re-create ourselves as we finally always wanted to be.
As society tries to pull you back to the "senior" world of what should be expected from a "senior citizen" we recognize time, experience,the beauty of the now and are free to be ageless.
As society yells to get off the motorcycle, stop working so hard,don't take that trip,you are not as young as you use to be,don't act silly…act your age,don't risk,don't seek adventure,be careful,be afraid, be fearful I say, let go, BE, enjoy, risk,start the new never tried before project. Live. Maybe for the first time.
Death comes to us all. It is unavoidable. But living as if you were dead is a choice I refuse to make.
Slowing down doesn't mean death will excuse you. It only means that you are slowing down and buying into the society driven concept that ageless is an illusion. It is real. Live agelessly.