Jun 15 2009
Are you waiting for life to get better?
How many of you sometimes have felt confused or overwhelmed with life?
I know I have.
How many of you think that one day you will have enough clarity of thought and things are just going to be clear and then you can take all the right actions to make your life better.
I sometimes do.
So when is this moment of clarity going to appear in your life?
When you are 40?
45 maybe?
When the kids have flown the nest?
When you are retired?
In a lot of ways , thinking like this makes sense ..doesn’t it? Of course the longer days you have behind you, the more you see, hear ,feel, experience and your wisdom grows.
When I was young, I was often told to listen to elders. Then I got a bit older and I still was told to listen to elders because they knew better. And I did it, like a good boy, but I knew there was something wrong with the logic ‘Grey hairs = wise man’.
Have you had the same experience?
The wisdom of old ageis it a myth?
Let’s stop and ponder it forf a second.
For most people, the older I grow, the wiser I get is not just true.
Why?
If you live twenty years of your life in the same wayjust going through the motions of your daywork-home-work-home-work-ho me you are pretty much going to be at the same point in your life 20 years from now, no matter how many years you put behind you.
Wisdom doesn’t come merely with age; it comes with experience,awareness about oneself and a deeper understanding(and going through daily motions doesn’t contribute to any of those) .
Experience and understanding comes from challenging yourself,facing your fears, putting yourself on the line and pulling it off..you believeing in yourself even when other people do not believe in you.
It takes a lot of courage sometimes, but in the end, it’s all worth it.
Wisdom might actually decrease with age if you don’t live your life to your full potential. A guy that lives in a lot of fear and always in his comfort zone, will be fearful and insecure at 25, at 35 only more so, and at 45 even more so.
This is because exercising a particular habit or behavior always makes it stronger.This is as true of negative habits as it is for positive ones.
So stop hoping that one day as you will have enough grey hairs, you will suddenly have absolute clarity of thought on how to live your life, how to go about your business, what are the best decisions financially, emotionally, relationship wise, spiritually etc.
Go out and live today.
