FIND YOURSELF AGAIN TODAY

TEMPUS FUGIT - TIME FLIES BY - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

We are inclined to become more settled as we grow older. Some of us have accepted more responsibilities, we have homes and mortgages, marriages or partnerships personal and/or financial. Quite a few of us have children or even grandchildren. In other words, many of us have grown up and become mature, stable, and productive adults.

Always though, changes, in one or more areas of our lives happen. These may be job changes, moving house to a larger or smaller place. Regardless of the specifics, with the passing of time, we choose or sometimes out of unexpected necessity, react to changes in very basic areas of our lives.

Most of us as we grow older, however, are less likely to be seriously upset or distraught by most of the changes that accompany us through our days. I am convinced that this has a lot to do with who we have grown up into as we matured and became adults.

Much like a boat, many things that we come upon, rarely overturn us. Even when something does seem to knock much of our life out of kilter, we usually right ourselves and reassert some semblance of normalcy as soon as we can.

If you have been taught self sufficiency or have learned it yourself, you are one of the people who are truly empowered. Self mastery and a degree of confidence that you have come through many years and are still standing, frees you to be, and do, what you know will be the right thing for you.

I remember when I was 28, I looked back and realized that both in age and maturity, I had been an adult for 10 years. Before this age, especially at say 26, you look back 10 years and you were not a grown up yet. At the very least, at 28 however, you and those around you, see you as a grown up. At 28 you have been making your own decisions for long enough to know you are an adult and have been for quite some time.

Someone said however, that emotionally, we never go beyond our late 30's when we think of ourselves. Perhaps this is why people in their 70's or 80's sometimes think they can climb ladders, move furniture and hang curtains, just as easily as they might have 30 or 40 years earlier.

Nevertheless, whatever your age today, sometimes it's good to remember that young woman or man, who at 28 was lively, spunky, confident and happy to be alive. Here was a healthy, young adult. How much of this vital, lively, energetic person is still with you, depends on how you decided to live your life. The choices you made, and continue to make, effect how you are living now, and will be living in the future.

Perhaps you may now decide you are going to reacquaint yourself with openness to change and decide how you will interpret it. As someone once said to me, in the context of a relationship, "It's always been up to you". In the context of the rest of your life, it really is.



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