Whichever stage of life we are at now, whether it be youth, middle age, or what often described as “golden years”, each of these periods of life brings its own challenges and many of us find it difficult to adjust to the process of change.
The young who refuse to look ahead in life and prepare for when they get older, the elderly who refuse to adjust to the fact that they are getting older and are always sighing to be young again. And there is another group of people who seem indifference.
To the young, may I encourage you to take up a keen interest in developing your potential, your character as you do to the development of your physical body. Intelligence can get you to the top but only character and integrity can keep you there. Find a worthy cause and pursue it diligently. Learn to serve by helping others in the community. It could be working with youngsters who are handicapped, visiting elderly people or helping the less privileged. Set goals for yourself and stay focused.
Do not be impatient even if you cannot produce the change overnight. Persevere and it will build up your character. Do the little things well and you will be entrusted with greater things.
To the middle age, this is where most of us would have settled down – and decay. Overcome inertia or lethargy by establishing new goals and go for them. It is also during this phase that baldness, bifocals and bulges set in. Exercise regularly to keep fit. Be alert as regards to sex. Many in this age group have “fallen”. They are drawn into affairs. The desire to be attractive to someone, especially when they feel that their partners are no longer attracted to them.
These usually happened when their children get married and leave home. Worsened by the fact that the couples are not communicating. This may lead to what I call “an empty nest syndrome - a feeling of being bored, driving many a man and woman to the edge of despair. Take up a case outside home, a worthwhile community project, join an interest group, enroll in a course and upgrade yourself, serve someone, help someone whenever you can.
To those who are in their “golden years”. Accept the fact that you are getting older. You cannot be fifty any longer, but you can make seventy or eighty just as profitable. Each additional age will bring about its own rewards. You will realize that you know things that you wouldn’t know when you were younger, say fifty.
Be engaged. Keep yourself busy. Do not stay idle nor doing anything. Many famous people did not even start to make an impact on the world until they were in the middle or older years.
Do not dominate your children and interfere with their lives. Just avail yourself for their advice and guidance. Unwanted interference will bring friction. Avoid it at all costs.
The young who refuse to look ahead in life and prepare for when they get older, the elderly who refuse to adjust to the fact that they are getting older and are always sighing to be young again. And there is another group of people who seem indifference.
To the young, may I encourage you to take up a keen interest in developing your potential, your character as you do to the development of your physical body. Intelligence can get you to the top but only character and integrity can keep you there. Find a worthy cause and pursue it diligently. Learn to serve by helping others in the community. It could be working with youngsters who are handicapped, visiting elderly people or helping the less privileged. Set goals for yourself and stay focused.
Do not be impatient even if you cannot produce the change overnight. Persevere and it will build up your character. Do the little things well and you will be entrusted with greater things.
To the middle age, this is where most of us would have settled down – and decay. Overcome inertia or lethargy by establishing new goals and go for them. It is also during this phase that baldness, bifocals and bulges set in. Exercise regularly to keep fit. Be alert as regards to sex. Many in this age group have “fallen”. They are drawn into affairs. The desire to be attractive to someone, especially when they feel that their partners are no longer attracted to them.
These usually happened when their children get married and leave home. Worsened by the fact that the couples are not communicating. This may lead to what I call “an empty nest syndrome - a feeling of being bored, driving many a man and woman to the edge of despair. Take up a case outside home, a worthwhile community project, join an interest group, enroll in a course and upgrade yourself, serve someone, help someone whenever you can.
To those who are in their “golden years”. Accept the fact that you are getting older. You cannot be fifty any longer, but you can make seventy or eighty just as profitable. Each additional age will bring about its own rewards. You will realize that you know things that you wouldn’t know when you were younger, say fifty.
Be engaged. Keep yourself busy. Do not stay idle nor doing anything. Many famous people did not even start to make an impact on the world until they were in the middle or older years.
Do not dominate your children and interfere with their lives. Just avail yourself for their advice and guidance. Unwanted interference will bring friction. Avoid it at all costs.
