Growing Older: A Joyful Perspective 6335
Growing older is not a pain in the ass.
No offense to the late Bernard Pivot.
Growing older is hilarious.
I would even go further:
Growing older is exciting,
it is soothing,
it is marvelous, it is fantastic, and it is rather reassuring.
Growing older is a boon and an unprecedented opportunity to watch your children grow up and grow old...
Growing older is a gift from heaven and a blessing from God to enjoy your grandchildren by playing with them, having crazy fun with them, and almost becoming children with them...
Growing older is marvelous and simply fascinating to keep seeing your childhood friends, to persist in joking with them, and to share memories and adventures experienced together...
Growing older is an ideal opportunity to discover other cultures, to travel, and to treat yourself again and again...
Growing older is becoming wise, it is sharing experiences, it is advising the younger and the less young...
Growing older is helping your neighbor, it is assisting others...
Growing older is the time to meditate, to dream, and to pray for this world that is becoming crazier and crazier...
Growing older is expecting nothing from others but responding to the expectations of others...
Growing older is being serene and confident in the future and never fearing what lies ahead or the bad tomorrows.
Growing older is being optimistic and always seeing the glass as half full.
Growing older is having faith and believing in the goodness of God, who alone programs all things.
Growing older is defying age and its wrinkles and its share of weaknesses, illnesses, and crises...
Growing older is facing life and its uncertainties...
Growing older is waiting patiently and serenely for the sound of one's own knell (or funeral bell)...
Dr. Fouad Bouchareb
May 8, 2024
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