Human’s life is like a climbing a mountain. In my image, the top of the mountain is set around the age of 40. That being said, this is only when we set our life span for around 80 years long. Everybody sets their life span differently, so that everybody’s age at the top of the mountain varies.
When we are baby, we start from an easy and gradual slope. We take it easy, taking one step at one time. Baby steps. In this stage, we should fully enjoy every step and every scenery. From the baby’s perspective, everything looks beautiful. Babies see the life as full of adventures and wonders.
As we go by more years, the slope starts getting steeper and steeper. As we become independent, we get free from parents’ supervisions. However, freedom comes with responsibilities. The responsibilities get heavier and heavier on us. Gradually, we start feeling that the life is tough. In this stage, we still don’t see wider visions. Therefore, we sometimes proceed blindly and reach to the dead-end. Then, we need to go back and take another route. Since our physical body is still young and strong, we tend to abuse our body. We tend to take our youth and good health for granted.
Around the age of 40, most of us reach at the top of the mountain. We can take a break here for a while. We can congratulate ourselves for our progress so far. When we look back our former years, we can analyze our pattern and habit. Based on the analysis, we can correct our bad pattern and habits. And, get ready for the later life.
From there, we still have half to go. It is a downhill. We start noticing we cannot abuse our body anymore. Our body start giving us any kinds of sign for that. We need to slow down our daily life pace. When climbing up the hill in our younger days, we can keep on running, without any tools or supports. Now, when it comes to walking down the hill, we need some types of tools or supports. It is hard to acknowledge and accept the aging process in our physical body. But aging comes with wisdom. Our body might not swiftly work anymore, but we have earned wisdom and technique to cheat in a way. We might find some shortcuts. Our pace might get slower, but we proceed with confidence.
I have started going down the hill in my life mountain. I have noticed some aging signs in my body, here and there. It can be shocking, but at the same time, it happens to everybody. That’s the way it is. All I need do is to accept and smile.
Personally, I feel lucky to have the same age friend whom I can casually talk about my aging and encourage one another. It is always good to have friends to talk about that.
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