AGE

From the moment we are born we start to age.
 
Aging is completely & utterly unavoidable, a mysterious, magical & mighty one-way trip, yet in a culture that worships at the altar of youth we all seem to have replaced growing old gracefully with growing old disgracefully.

Our bodies, minds and lives evolve, change & grow constantly yet we seem blind to the beauty in growing older, wiser, and more aware.

At the root of our collective inability to deal with age, is an inability to deal with change and of course the ultimate change, death. Despite this, moment to moment I change, you change and our relationships, our lives and our world changes with us.

We are touched, moved and respond as our thoughts, feelings and sensations like waves, return to the ocean to shimmer and glisten as something else happens, and something else happens, and something else…

Appearance is passing, experience is passing, life is passing...

Age is like a lightning flash, a baby's smile or a rainbow there’s nothing to grasp. When we get this and stop trying to grasp, to hold onto our past and surrender to age, to the passing of time, age gives us a great gift, a gift we have had since we were born….

The ability to simply be open to what is here...now...

Then no matter what age, age is a beautiful thing

#beinghuman #culture #change