Aging

October 26, 2020

Have my annual physical, and the nurse asks me to rate my stress level.  I ponder a few seconds and respond with a smile: zero.  She laughs and understandably agrees with me and says: “you exercise so much and it does create some kind of positive energy in your brain, good for you!”.

But she is only partially correct.  I think age has something to do with it too.  Some people fear or even hate aging, I EMBRACE it.  When you are young, you have so many ridiculous dreams and ambitions, not that you should not have them, but they come with a price: STRESS.  Relationship, of course is another one that causes so much distress.  They, nonetheless, are part of growing up, part of life.

When you get to certain age, have experienced so much, gone through life with the pain, the joy, the disappointment, the excitement, the elation, the frustration, and the sorrow, either you remember and accept them with grace and dignity, or bear them in mind with regret and grief.  It is all about attitude.

There is an old Chinese saying: 無怨無悔也是人生一種美

Meaning: when you go through life with no complaint and regret, it is comforting and another kind of beauty in life.