Live well
I am still reeling from the sobering news that a school mate has had a heart attack. She survived the sneaky episode. But it sends a chilling jolt of reality through my mind, body and soul as I ponder the ravages that the passing years inflict upon us.
Life is far far too short to wait for dreams to come true.
I think of the women I know who are still waiting to slim down before they would get into a swim suit. The women who put off leisure activities because of domestic demands on their time. The women who put off self-development because...of what?
I think of the women who took control of their lives, starting around age 40. They laid to rest their long-dead relationships to start anew. They got married for the first time, or got remarried to someone they really deserve. They traded dead-end jobs for a career with a future. They started their own businesses. They bought their own homes. They became single mothers. Whatever. But the important thing is, they started living for themselves. They live self-fulfilled lives.
In my 40th year, I climbed Mt Shasta. Not life-changing. Not news breaking. But personally satisfying to have done it when I did. For I would not have the physical and mental endurance to do it in later years.
Life is for living. Life is transient. Life is worth living for yourself. Live it well.
5 comments:
always always live for yourself.
you are living well!
i do agree that somehow people do take "unexpected" steps when they come to a certain age, perhaps its the realisation that life is too short to be waiting to do something.
youth is wasted on the young!
imp - yes. thanks. you do too, for which i am always happy to know.
edpj - i think it's the sudden realisation that the "good" years running out.
Which reminds me, I've yet to go Nepal!
Life is too short to be spent waiting for others.
wildgoose - nepal!
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