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Tags: health, wellness, anti aging, ageless
 How old are you? – Aren’t we fond of asking this question. Ours is a society which is so fascinated with age. We meet a person we take interest in, and one of the basic factors we consider is their age. What seems to be so significant with this aspect of a person’s character? Everybody loves to play the comparison game.
Our human characteristic makes it inherent for us to analyze things by comparing and contrasting. We compare what we have to those with our neighbors’. Women can’t help valuating how they look with other women, or with celebrities they see on television for that matter. “This is what I have, what do you have?”.
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We then base our judgment of that person or ourselves on the conclusion. What does this have to do with emphasis given to a persons age? When we ask a person how old they are, it often manifests a psychological predisposition to compare. We compare that person’s life to known benchmarks such as milestones or a set of standard for accomplishment based on age.
We might even be comparing our own accomplishment with that of the person we are asking. Or else, we tend to project an expectation of where that person should be in their life based on their age. For instance, at the “age” of 32, a woman should be married and have kids.
At 38, a man should be established in his career and have a family. Have you given it a thought on how much pressure this can impose? You base your value as a person on standards beyond you. Other people’s standards, the society’s standards. This leaves a person striving, struggling to keep up.
And the benchmark escalates and escalates- pleasing other people is a neverending feat. Only to end up in futility. Hence the preoccupation with age as a measure. The older you get, the more you have to do, the more you have to be, the more you have to accomplish. Because that’s how it is supposed to be.
So celebrating another birthday begins to carry with it added responsibility, having more expectations to live up to. That’s why there are people who seem more disgruntled rather than delighted in celebrating their so-called birthdays. "Age”, as it moves forth carries with it a certain burden. Because "age" is embodied by a numerical representation.
And the numerical value of age represents the yardstick of how a person should live their life. Then we live our lives according to that yardstick until it has become a chamber which encloses us. Isn’t that suffocating? Rather than being contained by standards imposed from the outside, a person should break free.
If numerical age serves to be a bubble limiting them, all it takes is a prick. “Age” will no longer be, but rather one becomes ageless. And being ageless means living your life according to what pleases you and what makes you happy. You become the person that you are according to your what you feel is right.
Your age is according to how you feel. And even if others would regard you as “aging”, you become an eternal youth. Why? It is because you are ageless. You let yourself be, you are free- unbound- and enjoying limitless possibilities of being happy and fulfilled.
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Dr. Rose Windale is a successful Health & Wellness Coach who has been advising and coaching individuals for many years. Rose now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Healthzine.org. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become truly healthy and happy.
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