For those of us who are upset about our age, I have a question; “are we surprised?” Did we not see it approaching? Perhaps our problem is not with age but with our resistance to accepting it. Perhaps we have trouble accepting age because of a fundamental misinterpretation of what it means.
To accept age means that you do not allow yourself to wallow in your fears and false interpretation of what is actually taking place. (This only serves the vast “health care” industry). I am sure you are not intentionally trying to be contrary. You are not trying to be defensive. And surely you are not ignorant. However, your resistance serves to brick up your individualized reality around you, separating you from a more universal reality that is seeking your attention.
And what is this reality that is seeking your attention?- The truth that there is an exchange taking place. You are exchanging your fantasies of what “could be” for what “is.” All your life, you have been living at the center of a world that is expanding and increasingly demanding of your participation, with some vague promise of what you hoped would be. And now, with age, all that you thought “could be,” is actually here, but it does not meet your expectations that were cultivated over years of placing fulfillment off into this future.
Stop worrying about what could be and take a close look at what actually is. Initially, the world was here for your use and now you have simply evolved to a point that you are being compelled to allow the world to use you. Look to see how the world is attempting to use you. What does it want from you? What do your loved ones want? What are they asking for? Do you have the courage to seek these insights?
Age is about recognizing that you are being provided the opportunity to find yourself in the expectations, fantasies, and needs of others. I know that shifting your thinking so dramatically is difficult. However, when you are dead and gone, you will still exist in the minds and hearts of those who know you. Why not find out now, how you are being internalized and how you will be remembered? There is still time to recognize yourself in their hearts. There is still time to choose how you are living on in the lives of others.
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