Mrs.Anteater
Just keep going....
Ok, I mean besides getting sick and chronically ill.
I just had a visit from an old acquaintance who I hadn’t seen for 28 years and only loosely held contact with. She is four years older than me.
I was wondering if getting stuck in your own convictions/ mind/ interpretations is a “ natural” way of getting old, kind of like our joints are getting stiff, our mind is doing the same. What would be the “ exercise” we need to do to keep us more flexible?
The benefit of getting old seems to me is the experience that “ I ‘ve done/ mastered / felt like that before”, and therefore, emotionally, we do not need to take things as serious as we did in our 20 ties. I remember feeling this as quite a relief.
However, is the other side of the coin that we act like we “ know it all”?
I feel like with age, I have noticed the importance of connection and support of other people, much more as in young life, when one thinks that one has to be independent and do it all alone. But are we also becoming more self-centred? Or just different self-centred than the teenager?
I also find that people or things annoy me more now, but I have learned not to show that right away as well as giving it time to go away on it’s own without any drama.
What’s your wise insight over the years?
I just had a visit from an old acquaintance who I hadn’t seen for 28 years and only loosely held contact with. She is four years older than me.
I was wondering if getting stuck in your own convictions/ mind/ interpretations is a “ natural” way of getting old, kind of like our joints are getting stiff, our mind is doing the same. What would be the “ exercise” we need to do to keep us more flexible?
The benefit of getting old seems to me is the experience that “ I ‘ve done/ mastered / felt like that before”, and therefore, emotionally, we do not need to take things as serious as we did in our 20 ties. I remember feeling this as quite a relief.
However, is the other side of the coin that we act like we “ know it all”?
I feel like with age, I have noticed the importance of connection and support of other people, much more as in young life, when one thinks that one has to be independent and do it all alone. But are we also becoming more self-centred? Or just different self-centred than the teenager?
I also find that people or things annoy me more now, but I have learned not to show that right away as well as giving it time to go away on it’s own without any drama.
What’s your wise insight over the years?