Daily Archives: May 11, 2014

Growing Old

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By RL

 

Growing old is hard. Your body and mind make it hard for you not to notice that you are old! Each passing day, I feel like I reach the point of no return. I surely miss my youth when I felt like I was able to do anything with the energy that I had. In addition, I have no obligation to anybody and free of doing anything without affecting anybody. Because by the age of thirty, you probably starting a family and a career. And by that time, sure enough you will learn how everything turns into responsibility and mindless routines. And sometimes when you look back, you feel either you wished you can do things differently or you are satisfied with what you are right now.

 

But human nature is never to be satisfied or happy for what they have. They always want something more and maybe that is the drive to keep them going or feel alive. Because when you are tired of your routines and responsibilities, you need something else to keep you going; a life purpose or a goal to go somewhere or to achieve something. Sometimes people want to have more of something that it is already abundant, but never realized that they already have fulfilled life and they just need to enjoy it.

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