Business of LifeDr. Stephen Ruppenthal has eight ways to see growing older is full of possibilities and adventure.
1. Cultivate your relationships
2. Connect with your spirituality
3. Make a difference
4. Protect your health
5. Exercise your intellect
6. Nurture your creativity
7. Rejoice in nature
8. Build your legacy
Age matters less when we pour ourselves into people and things that will in their own way continue us.
We are fortunate to have about 20 "bonus years" to do all of these. I wrote in What's the Point of Aging - expect the best of aging and you will have it.
A great relief indeed, to become more like ourselves. Better still, our better selves.
Ronni Bennett echoes that thought in Becoming Who We Are
Now I believe I was too quick, at 50, to have set myself in stone. It is unlikely that we change our bedrock natures, but it a rare individual who can avoid gaining new knowledge, understanding and perhaps a little wisdom as the years pass - and that alters our perspectives and therefore who we are....
we are all, unto our deathbeds, in the process of becoming. Sometimes I entertain the notion that that's what our “job” is while we’re on Earth.