I. Face and accept the reality of getting old, its consequences
and the limitations which growing old brings.
Act and behave your age. Quit fooling yourself by trying to look
like you were in your youth.
II. Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in, or accumulating
material things.
III. Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserve to enjoy
it, and the few healthy years you have left. Travel if you can afford
it. Don't leave anything for your children or loved ones to quarrel
about. By leaving anything, you may even cause more trouble when
you are gone.
IV. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays and tomorrows.
It is only today that you can handle.
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.
V. Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are blessed with any) but don't
be their full time baby sitter. You have
no moral obligation to take care of them. Don't have any guilt about
refusing to baby sit anyone's kids,
including your own grandkids. Your parental obligation is to your
children. After you have raised them into
responsible adults, your duties of child-rearing and babystting
are finished. Let your children raise their
own offsprings.
VI. Accept physical weakness, sickness, and other physical pains.
It is a part of the aging process. Enjoy whatever your health can
allow.
VII. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now. Stop working
hard for what you do not have. If you do not have them, it's probably
too late.
VIII. Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children, grandchildren
and friends.., people, who truly love you, love you for yourself,
not for what you have. Anyone who loves you for what you have will
just give you you
misery.
IX. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourself and others.
Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.
X. Befriend death. It's a natural part of the life cycle. Don't
be afraid of it. Death is the beginning of a new and better life.
So, prepare yourself not for death, but for a new life.
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