Before i start this note, I know there is a query in my heart whether it be worth even to write such thoughts. It could easily turning into a book if I structured this well enough - but this is for thoughtful introspection. To stay young... there are many little pithy terms to plunk away at; few people be desperate would be willing to ponder, for the real question is how long would you want to live?
The question is as old as time, and I wonder how honest one could be about it. Hitting the reset button is easy, but to live long is not. When that old mac of your for example gets rather yellow in color - not from a smoke but the harsh elements battering its skin - and even inside its parts don't seem as new when everything seems to speed up around it. The new generations are more witty and sharp with a sense of irony, as we once thought the same - as if we'd always be this color. Our turn always comes, but how to slow it so we can enjoy the process of aging, may even delay the process to the point where we remember time stops, and moment becomes a memory never forgotten, even if time forgot you.
We've all heard of the old rich man who earned his lot, but spent all his loot to regain his health and learned and earned nothing about life or satisfaction. His peace was spent on identity, and leaving all that makes its so much more terrible at the turning point, when all things change. I have been thinking this a lot myself; and the turning point is when change is necessary. We may not foresee the change, but when it comes, we could be ready for it. There is much said in the bible to reference our journey to be like a man who has his home a tent, and when the time come to pack up and move, he had nothing to keep him from doing so. In fact the early Isrealites were like this as the "pillar of fire by night and cloud by day" moved ahead of them. When it moved - they moved.
Anyway - this turning point or "the tipping point" (if your read the book) is unknown most often of what and when, how and everything else. Its just part of causality. As much as it is possible to mark the probability of changes to occur, we cannot be ready for all of them - mainly the biggest ones. Namely death.
There is no key to do's to this note. No "live in the moment" or "live in a tent" or whatever, because we all know the diversity of life is to be welcome. The point is to let you ponder what questions lie ahead in a changing world? What can this world not take from you? As the bible says; "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," so where does your treasure lie? Or will it even be worth digging up? Will someone find it? Will it contain anything? Or will be it full of memories?
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