“Age is merely a figure. Keep an enthusiastic life.”
Age is just a mindset, having the right attitude. You can either look at the downside of life or switch up the way you look at things and think of how much life is a gift that we are meant to enjoy and live to its fullest.
No matter how old you are now. Please choose to see it as an opportunity to really be who you are meant to be, love more than you ever have and treat yourself even better than you do today!
Once my wife, Sony and I had the great privilege of visiting my good friend Morshed’s house at Dhaka in Bangladesh. We spent a wonderful time meeting a bunch of kind and unreasonably hospitable people there. Most notably, our inspiration got manifold seeing Morshed’s mother named Masuda Moyeen (a lady in her 80’s who passed away a few years ago). We had very exciting conversation with her about modern time, days of her the then life, tactics to lead a happy family life and so on.
However, she amazed us by presenting her book titled “Memoir of An Ordinary Lady.” She authored the book at the age of 72. While at this age many people around the world tend to retire, lose belief and lead a miserable life. I am not saying oldness does not affect physically. Though I strongly believe that vulnerability of age can be overcome by certain outlook. Our mind ultimately controls our way of being to a large extent.
Back to the author. The encouraging senior author Masuda Moyeen is literally a source of great inspiration for many! She is not sitting idle and solely relying on others. Rather she massively believes in her inner strength and creative potential. She kept on writing and hoped to unleash more delightful write-ups and insights for enlightening people and helping them develop an attitude that we all need to shatter our limits rather than showing lame excuses! Hats off to Masuda Moyeen.
The author made me steadfastly believe in “age is just a number”. It does, undeniably, mean that the chronological age of a person does not necessarily reflect the way they act. I’m sure you also know, or know of, people who are in their eighties and yet very dynamic, both mentally and physically, and others in their thirties who seem old due to their attitudes and way of living. Regardless of your chronological age, you might surprise people if you learn the art of giving off the “vibe” of a person much younger and productive.
Well, there can be few ways to positively look at age:
You are tougher and sager – Think about how much more you know about the world and how your experiences and challenges in life have made you a much stronger and wiser person.
You admire the worthy things in life –For many of us, with maturity comes a much deeper appreciation for the little things in life that make us so happy.
Your experience contributes so much to the planet – Look at how mch you can give back to the planet based on your life experiences.
Comprehend how valuable life is and live more in the moment– With age, many of us understand how valuable and short life is, consequently, you are more willing to go for it in life and really live in the present.
Realize you live a precious life and leave a legacy-Your life must have had experienced numerous incidents and gained enormous acumen. Getting to hear from you relatively young people get educated on different aspects of life and make their life better. In the process, you leave a legacy.
Furthermore, I feel like sharing that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus in a speech on ageing has described what is now called “life after retirement” as the second and best phase of human life, a period of giving a person’s creative power to society in full measure. This is the most precious period of one’s life, which arrives after a long process of preparation, he said. “It should not be the time of ‘switching off’ or ‘packing up’ as the term ‘retirement’ implies,” the professor said while delivering the keynote speech at the 12th global conference of the International Federation on Ageing in India’s Hyderabad.
Prof Yunus said, “We may transit from phase one of life to phase two of life after completing a certain number of years of work, but that should not be called retirement. There is no reason why every person should not try to continue to be active till the last day. The word ‘retirement’ has to be retired.” The Nobel laureate, who is now in his 80s, way past the “retirement age”, called this period a life free from usual responsibility of raising a family and establishing oneself. “Phase two of life is the life of freedom and the opportunity to be whatever one wants to be without any restriction. They are not ‘retired people’; they are ‘citizens without boundaries’.”
I realized that Nobel Peace Prize laureate urged the people not to identify themselves as retired. “Forget who you were, make a new person out of yourself; be what you never got a chance to be; give leadership in changing the world, join the young in their journey to make a new world”. Prof Yunus recommended that the elders do not work in isolation, but join the youth to build “a coalition of experience and innovation to create a new world”. He also said this was a time for women to re-plan their life, free themselves from the taboos put on them, and go beyond the limits that society imposed on them. Wow!! What a masterful thought!
Nevertheless, once again showing sincere tribute to revered author-Masuda Moyeen, I am concluding this write up. Remember you are amazing just as you are and you are someone’s reason to smile right now. Just know that if you need to make changes in your life, look at this moment being the time for you to go for it. It is never too late to go for what you want. Wish you become happy. Please…just believe in you. And make it happen.
Written by: Shohag Mostafij, Email: mr@abunx.com
