Facing Ageing with Strength.

caz

New article out

http://kadampalife.org/2013/01/13/facing-ageing-with-strength/

Continuing from this article, how can we remain positive when we’re getting old and our body starts to go wrong? I have a few people in my life who have grown old so well that I intend to copy them as I age. One of them is Eileen...

genkaku

My favorite inspiration came in the obituary of a woman who died at 93 after an energetic life, one in which she learned to cope. She loved playing the piano. When arthritis got the better of her, she took up singing. And she also gave inspirational talks to gatherings of the elderly. At one such gathering she remarked, "If, after the age of 65, you wake up in the morning without any aches or pains, you will know you are dead."

My other inspiration come from an Internet chum who lives in California and remarked once, "I'd like to die with a smile on my face, but I guess I'll take what I get."

Aging has its agenda. I guess we'd all be well-advised to get with the program.

Patr

Well, happy ageing;

BhikkhuJayasara

I face my old age with strength.. I say 34 is just a number, it doesn't mean I have to be old in my mind, just in body :P

Deepankar

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Buddha mentioned that there is no mind and there is no young or age sort of problem.

upekka

never mind

it doesn't matter

footiam

genkaku said:

My favorite inspiration came in the obituary of a woman who died at 93 after an energetic life, one in which she learned to cope. She loved playing the piano. When arthritis got the better of her, she took up singing. And she also gave inspirational talks to gatherings of the elderly. At one such gathering she remarked, "If, after the age of 65, you wake up in the morning without any aches or pains, you will know you are dead."

My other inspiration come from an Internet chum who lives in California and remarked once, "I'd like to die with a smile on my face, but I guess I'll take what I get."

Aging has its agenda. I guess we'd all be well-advised to get with the program.

Living always has an agenda. Aging is part of living. If you cannot accept it, you'll have to let it go.