Why afraid getting old? We can’t question the changes occurred in the
body. It occurred as the cells started to deteriorate slowly as time passes by.
Generally, we can’t stop aging because it is part of body’s mechanism. It is
beyond our control to hold what is surely coming in the end time of our living.
A beautiful day as we are born seeing the first light of day. It was a
day of blessing that we have given the opportunity to live once, the day of too
much happiness of our parents as if worries can’t stand a chance to interrupt
the day of their joy.
Our growth and development started to take place slowly and patiently
from being an infant until we become a small boy ready to walk. It doesn’t end
there, as we reached adolescent stage, the body showed its healthiness. The
human cells are intact, fresh and robust.
As if the word “aging” doesn’t ring a bell in our ears. We did not give
much attention the implication it brings the later years in our life. Our mind
was occupied with the kind of enjoyment we choose. We spend our time away from worries,
socialize, adding friends into our list. We don’t have any preparation ahead
what is sure to come because it is still in the future.
Our mind was occupied to something else. We prepared ourselves to
handle the effect of life difficulties of our own making. We are happy when we
are in abundance as if saving something is not in our vocabulary, whatever
there is it should be spend as if there is no tomorrow. We spent it all in
leisure to have the satisfaction and contentment we are craving and the
excitement of being young, beautiful and healthy.
We did not understand the effect of financial preparedness to the time
when we become old and incapacitated. It is hard to admit the truth that we
surely age. If that time will come,
there’s no more turning back. We may be empty, lost and penniless. There’s
uncertainty ahead, the future is bleak and frightening of which we don’t want
to know.
Getting old is natural breakdown from modern lifestyle. There was
weakness and tiredness in the body. There is deterioration in the condition of
our general wellness. There is sadness in the contour of our face as if there’s
no life in it. Diminishing eyesight was common and out-of-focus. Poor eyesight restraints our movement as we
can’t see certainty what’s ahead.
There is pain in the muscles and joints. There is emptiness in living
alone, hopeless, helpless and penniless. There’s fast change in body chemistry
and mental power. Mental sharpness and compatibility to reason are
deteriorating, forgetfulness is the price. The collapse of mental ability is
costly. Better frame of mind is lacking. Self-confidence is lost. We can’t
trust ourselves anymore. We can’t communicate easily because of the difficulty
in remembering.
We can’t effectively analyze situation because we are poor in
interpreting what to do and how to act. Our hearing falter, the gaze has no
focus. There’s lack of interest to live. Depression comes in, unhappiness in
the making. We are prone to annoyance and sensitive on everything we disliked.
We can’t hear our own voice because of the difficulty in our hearing.
Our physical handicap is bothering us too much to the senses. Our physical
condition deteriorate, our health conditions aggravate and worsen.
During the younger years of our lives, we celebrated our birthdays
without fail. We spent enough to make the celebration with deeper meaning. We
celebrated it with too much fanfare every year until the time we don’t want to
celebrate anymore. We don’t want to remember that we are started aging. We
feared that the time has now come leading the path nearing the end of the road.
The life we lead before no longer be the life we are in.
As we aged, we wanted a life as simple as it is. We don’t want to
expect more. Less in life is more than enough to be happy and contented. As our
physical activity wanes due to health reason, the pain in the body increases
and unbearable. There’s no more flexibility in the contraction of our muscles.
It was common to see a scene of an old man or woman sitting in the
chair with no focus, unmoved with blank expression. He slightly moved,
grimacing due to the pain of arthritis. He felt it quite a long time since
mid-fifties. He refrained doing physical activity as it only aggravates his
muscles and joint pains.
Loneliness makes his life unbearable but nothing he can do to ease the
boredom. Entering into the final chapters of his life kept bouncing in his
mind. He wanted to hold the time to pass but the time don’t want to embrace
him. His life, his time is now coming to an end.
A good lifestyle may
lengthen life for several years more. Too much abuse to the body will cut it
short. Following the modern lifestyle is pleasing but also an everlasting pain.
Aging makes the skin to wrinkle so fast. The change in body chemistry from
being young to become an aged is part of life history of living and dying. It
is a fact worth remembering and forgetting but the sure thing is we can’t live
forever.
