Almost everyone is afraid of growing old. Where there are wrinkles, gray hair, old-fashioned ideas are great ghosts of time.
In our world youth translates into beauty, energy, pleasure and seduction, the age is a cause of anxiety and distress. People remain upset in constantly trying to contain the effects of time. Women spend fortunes on cosmetics, diets and fashionable clothes. Men seem less concerned, however, invest heavily in demonstrations of virility and power.
It is a desperate race against time in an attempt to camouflage the effects of old age: decreased physical vigor, disability, apathy.
Admittedly take care of body and mind is essential to a balanced life. Adapting to changes is also of vital importance, especially today, where the speed of technological and cultural changes require attention and flexibility. But become unhappy obsessively trying to conceal the marks of time is to be an illusion.
In fact, age is not a matter of time, but the deadlock. As people stopped going to work out, they get older. The old person is a rigid person. Youth is a state of mind. The secret of youth is in the spontaneity of an active soul. The youth is not to have a few years, it depends on the way to live and enjoy everyday life. There is no way to simulate physical youth if we are already old inside.
The youth perpetuates the way to worship joy, optimism, good humor, willingness, determination, in favor of a life full of dynamism and well being. Not even trying to stop the events, prevent the transformation of a maturation
process. The important thing is to live intensely the whole process, using the time in his favor as a means of learning and growth. In so doing, one will certainly find happiness and peace of mind, the true secret of
eternal youth.
Published in the State of Minas ", 10/02/97