Change

 

No one expects a ten year old child to look, or act, or want, the same things that a one year old child does. Yet, so many people seem to think that this all changes once they feel they have reached maturity. In movies, or books, it is easy to make things look like they last forever, but happily ever after depends on change.

Getting older does not necessarily mean becoming less than. We should all be getting better over time. We have more experiences to draw from, more knowledge to use to our advantage. Being a certain age means nothing really. Health matters, common sense counts, and maintaining a willingness to change is a great boon.

Treating ourselves like we would treat much loved children means buying shoes that fit and are comfortable, clothes that make us feel good about ourselves, finding hairstyles that make us smile when we look in the mirror, and continuing to age as gracefully as we did as children. Freezing a life at any age does not work. One isn't ten, twenty isn't thirty, fifty isn't sixty. Each age has its own ups and downs. Learning to roll with the changes makes life more satisfying and pleasant than trying to contort ourselves into some past ideal that is probably not really the way we remember it.

Don't let some younger person define you either. Cliche ideas about age, or grannys, or even women of the past are not stencils that still work. You are unique!

Be everything that you are and maximize your life's joy. Get rid of those baby toys and ideas and grab hold of today's pleasures for all you're worth, because there is really no going back.