A time will come, you will forget to check the mirror in a long time. When you suddenly decide to check, boom, you will notice your skin is saggy, your flesh is wrinkled and your hair is fully grey. You need not be told then that you have entered your old age era.
You will walk down the street, your mind will be sharp, but your weak body can no longer support the weight. The strength of the youth has been gradually and almost unnoticeably sapped out.
This is when regrets slap harder! You reflect over your journey with a sad awareness that you cannot change a thing. If you have betrayed a loved one, you will be overwhelmed! If you have decided out of pride and arrogance to be childless, you will be devastated. If you haven't impacted as much as you should, you will be broken. These thoughts might possibly kill you.
Old age doesn't erase memories, in fact, it gives you all the time to relive it in your mind. And the prison of a mind reliving an unfulfilling memory is as terrible as the torments of hell.
What if our ages are not ticking up but counting down to zero. A child destined to live for seventy years isn't growing older because his days are blazing by. Time is fleeting but we don't know it. The seasons are passing and we forget to live fully in each of it and make the most of the little time we got.
But if we begin to live now, intentionally choosing what is right, investing in love, service, and sacrifice. Making the most of our time, reading, writing, reaching out to people, joining noble courses and making the world a better place. Creating a relationship with God and nurturing it with care and jealousy, If we sincerely and desperately pursue this, our old age will be refreshing, knowing that we have lived well and lived fully. Death will meet us full of smiles and we would wave the world farewell in excellence that we have done our term and we have contributed to the good in it.
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