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News-Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the quality of life. News-Blog: Live-Life News Live life to the fullest regardless of age: December 2, 2007 by Mike Fitsko
Earlier this week I received an email from a former high school chum who told me that he and another relative had taken up sky diving. “You’ve got to be kidding,” I exclaimed to myself. “He’s just as old as I am!” But that wasn’t the biggest shocker. The relative my friend said joining him in this new venture was none other than his 83 year old father. I’ve always been amazed when I discover people living their lives to the fullest and treating age as if it was nothing more than a number on their driver’s license. News Blog: Live Life News (Continued) A recent television news program featured a 91-year-young woman who had just graduated from college. When the reporter asked her if obtaining her degree had been her lifelong dream, she responded, “Not really. It was just one of my goals, but I’ve got so many more left.” At age 83, former President George H.W. Bush parachuted out of an airplane for the reopening of his Presidential museum. He told reporters he had never felt better even though just months before he had hip replacement surgery. I must admit I have a great deal of admiration for those who live their lives with an outrageousness that tells the world “I’m not deserting my ideals or giving up on my enthusiasm for life just because there’s enough candles on my birthday cake to light up a small city.” It was the French writer Andre Mauros who acknowledged: “Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has not time to form.” After all, age is ultimately a quality of the mind. And it is those among us who continue to look ahead with hope and ambition that understand that growing older doesn’t mean that life has no more adventure. They believe that while years may wrinkle your skin, giving up your enthusiasm for living wrinkles your soul. News Blog: Live Life News (Continued) Margie Kuhn was a social activist best known for her work on behalf of older Americans. One of the early organizers of what became known as the “Grey Panthers;” she was convinced that the older generation was this country’s “biggest untapped and undervalued human resource.” In an interview published in “The Ageless Spirit” at the age of 86 she affirmed, “We oldsters have a lot to share ... I believe there has to be a purpose and a goal to life. The secret of thriving and surviving is having a goal. It is absolutely essential, because it gives you the energy and the drive to do what you must do, and to get up when you feel like staying in bed. I have plenty of goals. On my 80th birthday, in fact, I vowed to myself that I would do something outrageous at least once a week, and for the past few years, I’ve been able to live up to that promise ... .” I believe Kuhn had the right idea. Maybe I’ll take up sky diving. News Blog Comment: Can I go to the edge and walk on it, taking care not to fall down and get killed? Can I walk on the verge of a crevice? Can I live my life on edge, taking care not to fall down - every single moment? The utmost care is needed in order not to fall down and harm your-self. You need total silence for that much of care! No noise of the mind running here and there noisily inside the brain can, any more, be afforded. After all it is a question of do or die! After all it is a question of life and death! After all it is a real adventure and not a fabricated one with all the safety measures already in place! The brain takes the initiative and immediately stops the mind. The right synaptic signals get clearly established in between the brain cells, and travel through the motor nerves to the muscles taking the right step at the right moment. Mind goes empty. Brain stands still, doing momentarily - what exactly is needed, to be done in order to live life large.
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