Growing Older AND Wiser...

Periodically, over the last several years, since I’ve taken my life to the ‘next-level’ insofar as growth through and from personal-awareness from life experiences is concerned, I’ve been greeted by a ‘naysayer’ or two...those of whom seem almost ANGRY, at times, due to my ‘new-attitude’ and ‘take’ on life. Actually, my attitude is not so much ‘new’ as it is that I’m more ‘putting into practice’ the belief-system I subscribe to as well as ‘coming from’ a place based on life-lessons which have taught me well and assisted me in taking on a more ‘deliberate’ positive ‘take’ on life. When these sporadic occasions arise, whereby someone reminds me that I’m either a bit too ‘optimistic’ for their liking or that I haven’t ALWAYS ‘practiced what I preach’ relative to having gained insight and an understanding of life from a new ‘point of view’ developed over the years, I feel that, although I am not ‘defending’ my actions, statements, opinions and the like, I MUST remind these individuals that it is only through living a lifetime (often MANY more years than they) and attaining personal-growth, over the decades, that has brought me to this place; and that NO...I have NOT forgotten what my life was like before my LONG time in coming ‘epiphany’ nor have I forgotten where I ‘come from’; and even MORE ‘to the point’ I do NOT stand in judgement of others. We all ‘live and learn’ in our own way and in our own time; and the ‘fact of the matter’ IS that in life, we are SUPPOSED to grow...to learn...to become better, wiser, and more capable of managing our lives; at least that part which we have control over...the ways in which we perceive and think about life and all it entails. Muhammad Ali, AKA Cassius Clay, was once quoted as saying something along these lines: I am paraphrasing, ‘If a man at age 50 thinks the same way he did at age 20 then that’s a waste of 30 years!’ It may be difficult for a 20/YO to envision him/herself ‘down the road’ of life and being10, 20, or 30 years older or to TRY imagining that he/she won’t STILL hold the same ideals as he/she does today...I ‘get’ this...I do; but, in all likelihood, this ain’t gonna be the case. Whether or not we ‘see it coming’, life WILL change the attitudes we possess, and, when we allow for it, will teach us so that we will evolve and grow along the way. So...to any ‘out here’ in ‘Patch’-land who might think me to be a ‘know-it-all’, or a person ‘out of touch’ with reality, please understand a few things, if you will: First off... this is the very LAST thing I think myself to be and Second: I am, simply, grateful to have come to this point in my life and I wish to ‘share’ the ‘good-news’...that being that ‘perception’ is EVERYTHING in life and, when we allow for it, life will just get ‘easier’ and BETTER...ALL depending on how ya’ look at it! Just Sayin’...