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Everybody goes through troublesome situations. Almost everyone has been subject to misery and pain. With all that, how is it possible to move on to our next phase and enjoy the golden years that are still there for us? We have put all that bad stuff behind us but it’s still present in our minds. As the saying goes, “only two things are certain in this life, death and taxes.” Usually, the person then goes on to speak about taxes, but as we get older, we have to look the prospect of death in the eye. How are we going to do that? With strength and self-assurance? Or are we going to cower before death and give him a victory even while we are still alive? Old age is your choice! I know what I want to do, and I think that you have the same desire, whether you can achieve it or not.

What do you feel like right now? Is your body relaxed and younger-feeling than it really is? Have you come to grips with your real age? If that’s a problem for you, then you need to get a new way of thinking. If you can modify your attitude about your age, you can make astounding changes in your life. Your whole body will respond with a more positive outlook on life, your personality will reflect the potential joy that surrounds you, and even your looks will improve – those troublesome lines and wrinkles will not necessarily disappear, but they will become less noticeable, and many will turn into laugh lines. Just think, life – your life – is just sitting there, waiting for you to enjoy it to the fullest. It’s up to you to pick the cherries while you can. Old age is your choice.

How to do that? How do you “pick the cherries?” Well, it starts every morning. When you wake up, and make sure that you are thinking positive thoughts, that those nasty dark thoughts are banned from your head. Think about how you have been blessed: you are free to breathe good air, live in a comfortable house with people you love and who love you, enjoy your day. Old age is your choice, count your blessings; you’re bound to have many. And don’t stop where you are, go after all the new blessings you can find as well – new flowers and plants in the garden and along the street, new friends and acquaintances, even new TV programs (hmm, well maybe not). The important thing is to get and maintain a positive point of view on your entire existence. It’s your responsibility to take care of your own positive thoughts.

There is nothing that says you cannot stay active as your age increases. Daily routines are a pain, and they will drag you down with them into their boring daily cycles, but only if you let them. Vary your required activities, do them at a different time, go here and there via different routes and explore new areas, energise your mind and pump up your imagination with new experiences. Take life by the throat and love it! Old age really is your own choice: take control of your life and live it to the hilt, or grow old before your time, stewing in your own juices. You say you’ve made mistakes in the past? Who has not? But you can’t change those errors now; the thing to do is to face them down, accept that you made a mistake, but learn from it and life goes on! You have to let the old wounds heal themselves and go away. If you don’t do that, you will be covered by old wounds and look like the loser you have decided to be. Did you get the drift there? “The loser YOU have decided to be.” Don’t. Old age – your choice. Think positively and show it.

“Old age” comes in two varieties: the physical aging of the body, and the mental aging that can accelerate the physical aging if you let it. If you become old mentally, you’re done for. Your mind will convince your body that it cannot do even the normal things that it still is capable of doing, and you will kill yourself before your time. The correct, positive outlook will support your body and allow it to create joy and pleasure for you. You cannot stop physical aging, but you certainly can prevent yourself from becoming “prematurely old”. Think about it, you’ve probably seen and maybe even known some people who, at 40 or 45 years, were already older than most people at 75. Except in rare cases, that’s not physical, that’s mental aging. You don’t have to succumb to that. Enjoy your life, right up to, and even beyond, the limits that you set for yourself. That’s how to achieve the best you can do. “I don’t want to get old?” Old age is your choice!

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Old Age – Your Choice?