Ageing

Ageing is a process we all have to go through. Nobody remains young forever. You might be a bit more youthful looking and healthy if you had looked after your body, or if you have good genes. Other than that, we all age – at our own time. There is nothing we can do about it. We can either accept the ageing process as a fact of life and deal with it as best we can – gracefully, or we can whine and complain about it and make our life miserable in the process. Whatever you do, it makes no difference except to your quality of life.

Remember, there are people who didn’t make it to the ageing process. Life for them was cut short for one reason or another. Hence, we shouldn’t complain about growing old, because there are people who do not have that privilege. Rather, we should prepare for old age as best we can and accept what comes our way. A change of mindset and acceptance is all that is needed for us to live happily in our old age.

Let us see what other people think about ageing.

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent. - Lyman Abbott

Old age ought to be, and essentially is a manifestation of what is hidden in the depths of man's nature. It might be, it should be, not an exhibition of crackling impotence and gloomy decay, but the very crown and ripening of life – the symbol of maturity, not of dissolution. - E. H. Chapin

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. - Albert Einstein

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. - Muhammad Ali

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind. - Irvin D. Yalom

Growing old is no more than a bad habit a busy man has no time to form. - Andre Maurois

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early. - Lyman Abbott

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. - Simone de Beauvoir

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. - Andre Maurois

Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you get. But your view becomes much more extensive. - Unknown

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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