 | On my favourite gorge walk recently, with steep cliffs and rocks going down to the water I saw two younger people snorkelling and swimming. I noticed two other women standing on the edge of the water also. I was wondering how did these ‘young ones’ – I am 66 – get down there? There were no stairs, paths, or any easy way visible to get down there. |
And I thought that at their age I was also not having much stopping me to get to where I wanted to go or be. Life was an adventure and I went for it, though not always considering the consequences.
The slight melancholic feeling and nostalgia for my younger years that arose left very soon. I asked myself ‘Well, where or what can stop me nowadays to get to where I want to go?’ (Not much, since I adjusted my ‘wants’ and fully accepted where my body is at, and what it can do.)
I have to add here that it was a process of healing, accepting and surrendering to where my body is at now. And I learned that not so much through ageing, but after several surgeries that limited the use of my right arm. I fell into a depression for a while because I was not able to work the land anymore and do heavy things with one arm. I guess the acceptance of that helps me now accepting ageing and that the body is not being able to do everything I want it to that I could do in younger years.
Supposedly I have Osteoporosis and that does not worry me a bit. I have a strong body (for my age) and move with as much conscious presence as I can. Meaning whenever I move, I am fully present in my body and aware of how I move. I don’t think of dinner or what I will do tomorrow or what I have done yesterday.
Now I am onto other adventures, physical ones as much as my body agrees to, but more and more internally now, feeling, exploring my inner world which I feel is connected with the outer – in a very expanded way – connected way out there with the stars, to the Universe, the energetic and Divine world – a great adventure.
And I simply don’t want or yearn to do physical things my body can’t do anymore. With regular exercising, after being very weakened from a big surgery, I feel strong and fit and can do a lot of things again physically. There are some limitations body-wise but I love and am happy in my physical body and where and on which adventures it can still take me – like going to see the pyramids in Egypt.
Well where else do I want to go now?
I want to get to know and live my real self, my essence and the Divinity I originate from. This may be my best adventure ever, where I find all I ever looked for on the outside and never found.
Ingrid L., Australia.
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The slight melancholic feeling and nostalgia for my younger years that arose left very soon. I asked myself ‘Well, where or what can stop me nowadays to get to where I want to go?’ (Not much, since I adjusted my ‘wants’ and fully accepted where my body is at, and what it can do.)
I have to add here that it was a process of healing, accepting and surrendering to where my body is at now. And I learned that not so much through ageing, but after several surgeries that limited the use of my right arm. I fell into a depression for a while because I was not able to work the land anymore and do heavy things with one arm. I guess the acceptance of that helps me now accepting ageing and that the body is not being able to do everything I want it to that I could do in younger years.
Supposedly I have Osteoporosis and that does not worry me a bit. I have a strong body (for my age) and move with as much conscious presence as I can. Meaning whenever I move, I am fully present in my body and aware of how I move. I don’t think of dinner or what I will do tomorrow or what I have done yesterday.
Now I am onto other adventures, physical ones as much as my body agrees to, but more and more internally now, feeling, exploring my inner world which I feel is connected with the outer – in a very expanded way – connected way out there with the stars, to the Universe, the energetic and Divine world – a great adventure.
And I simply don’t want or yearn to do physical things my body can’t do anymore. With regular exercising, after being very weakened from a big surgery, I feel strong and fit and can do a lot of things again physically. There are some limitations body-wise but I love and am happy in my physical body and where and on which adventures it can still take me – like going to see the pyramids in Egypt.
Well where else do I want to go now?
I want to get to know and live my real self, my essence and the Divinity I originate from. This may be my best adventure ever, where I find all I ever looked for on the outside and never found.
Ingrid L., Australia.
For further reading you may also like:
What does it mean to be an older person?