5 Things Of LifeYou Can Appreciate

Especially when you are over 50

When you have crossed the 50-year mark, everything starts to look different. I don’t want to suggest you know it all. As a matter of fact, though, your half century should at least have left deep insights. Here’s a taste of what I think you’ve earned in your life experience, according to my own self- reflections and psychological study. I hope I’m not wrong.

As regards younger people, you’re welcome if you want to steal a glimpse of what your future life could be.

Exercising

Any exercise you‘ll make, now will have a different flavor. The flavor of the challenges you establish with yourself, without the need of an external evaluation or approval.

If you do any exercise, like gym, jogging, swimming, kick-boxing, scuba diving, parachuting, kite-surfing and so on, you do it for your benefit only.

Of course, maintaining a healthy looking body will be rather appreciated by your partner or stranger people in the street. That’s not what you’re focusing on, though.

What you really, really enjoy is the fact that whatever you’re doing you do it for your benefit. Sweat and cardiopalms included.

I’m rather the lazy type when it comes to hard exercising. I only like long walking and swimming.

But, when you’ve reached this age, you also appreciate laziness, naturally. Read along to see how your laziness still represents a positive aspect for you.

Laziness

If you’ve realized how short life is, laziness is not actually something you want to incurr into. Unless you’re depressed, which I hope you’re not.

Laziness becomes more a moment of pause in an otherwise intense and busy daily activity. We’ve always got something to do, don’t we? Work, family, social activities, hobbies, pets…

Women are especially able to create things to do even when they’ve got “nothing” to do. Be it a phone chat, cooking a new recipe or showing up for a recently found hobby.

If you meditate, practice yoga or any other relaxation technique, you know very well the difference between action and non action. You can differentiate between planning your activities like a manager would do, and take advantage of a rest you would anyway need to take.

You are a great machine, half century warrior!

So that, people under 50, I’m warning you, whenever you find an over-50 lazy looking madame or monsieur, make sure they’re not ill. Otherwise, you may be frankly surprised by knowing what’s going on inside of their minds during those pausing moments.

Smiling

Ever seen a middle aged not smiling? Should be a phenomenon.

Once you’ve accomplished, or not accomplished at all, the tasks you’ve chosen to perform in life, you feel like a dinosaur who’s preserving the species.

That’s why you’re supportive and welcoming and smiling towards all other living beings, animals and humans as well.

The exceptions exist in every situation, you know, but I don’t want to dedicate too much energy or attention to them. I leave the psychopaths and psychiatric cases to other specialists, and try to spend as little time as possible with toxic people.

Living is a serious affair. Put a smile on your face, and just in case you haven’t already realized it, you’ll be a winner in the game.

Carpe Diem

If you haven’t studied Latin during your school years, you will surely know the meaning of this motto from the famous movie “Dead Poets Society”, starring the incredible and beloved Robin Williams.

Seize the day is a philosophy of life.

It doesn’t mean you are actuating without a plan.

It means you’ve gained more flexibility and are able to let the flow of the day conduct you, through your plans.

You know by now that there are things under your control and other things which you can’t control. By accepting this truth you feel an incredible amount of freedom inside of you and you can do it all more easily. Carpe Diem.

Light

“The sun also rises”, like E. Hemingway reminds us.

Light is what you should always been looking for. Or love, if you prefer.

If you’ve sown well, you will reap well.

What does it mean?

It means that you can appreciate each day the light showing up in the morning. You bless each daylight and you’re grateful for what is still coming into your life.

Burdens haven’t disappeared, and you may be tired, of course.

Still, you live each day waiting for all the glimmers of light that are offered to you.

Life is a precious gift, and you want to live it with light and lightness.

Conclusion

No takeaway this time except for: live your life fully!

Life is short and you’ll be eternally grateful to approach it with the attitude you’ve read above. Advice from an over 50.