Lifetimes
In with the New, Out with the Old
I read with great interest R.C. Johnson's declaration of war on the aging process. Her 'Getting Younger' series snapped me out of my stupor. It inspired some thinking on my part about something I thought about every day: getting old.
Today I woke up with a brand new thought: I have another lifetime to live. Here's how that happens.
More than one lifetime
If we consider one lifetime as 30 years, we lived 0-30 in our youth, 30-60 as adults, and 60-90 in maturity. I think of them as the phases of Discovery, Experience, and Wisdom. DEW. Maybe there are even more lifetimes after that. I don't know.
I'm into my maturity Lifetime, and I intend to make it as good, if not better, than the previous two. Yeah, yeah, there will be challenges and limitations, but we go into this lifetime with more learning and experience. I hope to capitalize on those to gain the Wisdom promised in this Lifetime.
Get the 'old' out
I'm one of those people R.C. mentioned who consume themselves with 'old.' I even tried--unsuccessfully--to purge the word from my vocabulary. It kept coming back as I lived my life as a march to death instead of the new day I'd been given every 24 hours.
With my new lifetime barely beginning, I can now shed the notion of the old one getting close to closing. What a thought to carry around every day! Forget about it! I'm done with thinking only about 'old!' I am a youngster in my new Lifetime and looking forward to it with Wisdom.
No fooling
Others may remind me that my Lifetimes outlook only attempts to fool myself. As the saying goes, "you can try to fool others, but you can't fool yourself." For me, it's less 'fooling myself' than a 'new reality' for myself. It's working. It's real. And it blew that old 'old feeling' out the door for me.
It also helped to lose 18 pounds, the look I had in my first Lifetime. It was a good connection to make to a previous life. After all, that was me then; I'll do whatever it takes to be like that now.
New Lifetime, new outlook
But the concept of Lifetimes, a new one I've already embarked upon, provides a new perspective. Anything is now possible again. Young has returned. And with R.C.'s tips for staying that way, old is finally out.
Today I woke up with a brand new thought: I have another lifetime to live. Here's how that happens.
More than one lifetime
If we consider one lifetime as 30 years, we lived 0-30 in our youth, 30-60 as adults, and 60-90 in maturity. I think of them as the phases of Discovery, Experience, and Wisdom. DEW. Maybe there are even more lifetimes after that. I don't know.
I'm into my maturity Lifetime, and I intend to make it as good, if not better, than the previous two. Yeah, yeah, there will be challenges and limitations, but we go into this lifetime with more learning and experience. I hope to capitalize on those to gain the Wisdom promised in this Lifetime.
Get the 'old' out
I'm one of those people R.C. mentioned who consume themselves with 'old.' I even tried--unsuccessfully--to purge the word from my vocabulary. It kept coming back as I lived my life as a march to death instead of the new day I'd been given every 24 hours.
With my new lifetime barely beginning, I can now shed the notion of the old one getting close to closing. What a thought to carry around every day! Forget about it! I'm done with thinking only about 'old!' I am a youngster in my new Lifetime and looking forward to it with Wisdom.
No fooling
Others may remind me that my Lifetimes outlook only attempts to fool myself. As the saying goes, "you can try to fool others, but you can't fool yourself." For me, it's less 'fooling myself' than a 'new reality' for myself. It's working. It's real. And it blew that old 'old feeling' out the door for me.
It also helped to lose 18 pounds, the look I had in my first Lifetime. It was a good connection to make to a previous life. After all, that was me then; I'll do whatever it takes to be like that now.
New Lifetime, new outlook
But the concept of Lifetimes, a new one I've already embarked upon, provides a new perspective. Anything is now possible again. Young has returned. And with R.C.'s tips for staying that way, old is finally out.
Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen
I design jewelry free from the constraints of textbook techniques and write non-fiction free from the rigors of technical expression. Chemist by training, creative by spirit, conservative in values, and art... View profile
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17 Comments
Post a CommentGood for you Lorraine.
Yep, we might as well LIVE til we die. And when we have eternal life, even that is only a transition. I think of my life in halves; 0-50 and 50-100. So I am just starting the second half with a fresh odometer!
Nicely Written, thank you
Go Baby, Go! Like the frog in the crane's beak, his hands sticking out of the beak, gripped tightly on the cranes throat and the caption "Never give up! Never give in!"
Thank you for this wonderful, inspiring article. I love "DEW"!
wonderful perspective!
Great attitude Lorraine...;0)
I need your peptalk as I feel very old today.
Nice perspective. I guess I'm in the "Discovery" Lifetime then. I do feel like there is a lot to life that I haven't experienced yet and that I am constantly learning new things. I'm enjoying this age, but I know that each phase comes with its own joys, including children, grandchildren, retirement, travel, etc. I'm just taking each day as it comes.
Enjoyed this article - and the one you wrote on losing 18 pounds (although I couldn't comment on it). I'm desperately trying to lose weight.