50 is now the new 30

Spiritual resource to share: agelessness

(Please note: both of the people in this picture are 30 years old.*)

Perceptions on aging are in a state of flux right now.

You have probably heard that, today, someone 50 years old is now similar in many ways to what a 30 year old used to be. So, if 50 is the new 30, what does 30 mean? The new ten? What about about ten year olds? Isn't the thought that kids are growing up too fast? Does this mean that everyone reaches 30 years old faster than usual, and then stays there for about 20 - 25 years?

And as populations the world over deepen their spiritual quest, a firmer belief in eternal life takes hold. But is life is eternal, where does that put middle age?

Okay, this may all sound like something from Jerry Seinfeld reruns, but it does kick off some wonderful thinking on aging. We readily acknowledge the wisdom of children and people rocking at 80, so old perceptions on aging are due for an extreme makeover.

Mary Baker Eddy shares these inspiring thoughts about aging:

The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and material, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright and imperishable glories.

Never record ages. Chronological data are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood. Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.

Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.

(*Not really. Photo from fotolia.com)


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