Talking About the Good Old Days

It's never too late to change. For many of us, this is easier said than done. Unfortunately, it's more difficult for some of us, because we place too many restrictions on ourselves.

 Some of us are watching our lives slip away as we grow more detached from what's happening in the world. We spend considerable time reminiscing about the "good old days," as if they were really good.

And while we continue slipping deeper into apathy, society constantly remind us that we're growing older and apathy is one of the conditions facing us.

While growing older or becoming labeled "seniors" is downright frightening to many of us, however, it's not nearly as frightening as watching our lives sink into social, economic, and political irrelevancy. And as we do, we become victims of a self-fulfilling prophecy about aging in this country.

Meanwhile, for those of us who don't dwell on or fear aging, we continue to live in the present. We recognize that these are the good old days.

We are working on creating healthy minds and bodies to assist us with expressing enlightened actions.  And by doing this everyday, we; are too busy to cling to the dead memories of the past.

When we look in the mirror, we see ourselves without deficiencies of age, beauty, weight, and other physical identities that inextricably connect us to victimization. This awakened to life helps us to remain free from trying to look the way we look in the past.  

And with this clarity, we're not rushing to get a face lift, tummy tuck, toupee, wig, and other types of implants to correct how we look. We clearly know that changes mean changes.

Similarly, for some of us, what's even worse than aging is aging without enough money. We thought we would never face layoffs, unemployment, business failures, and so forth.

We believed our education, experience and qualifications made us marketable into our retirement years.  So we either didn't plan for changes or we expected they wouldn't really affect us that much.

This mindset places some of us in positions to become victimized by regrets, and blaming ourselves for being, basically, stupid for living our lives like "candles in the wind."

Meanwhile, just the thought of not having what we want at certain points in our lives is cause for intense suffering. Not to mention having deep fears over health care and intense regrets about our lack of accomplishments.

Many of us constantly moan about what we could've done if we hadn't done so and so. Unfortunately, and without ever giving it much serious consideration, we had bought into the victim age-game. And by doing so, we had abdicated our powers to change the rules of the game.

Nevertheless, to free ourselves from the age-game, we must be mindful that there are no age or income restrictions on change.

Change is a state of mind. It's our inherent abilities  to connect with, and use, the endless flow of ideas existing in our minds.

For us to change or even participate in change, we cannot have cluttered minds searching blindly for solace in the past. We must have the clarity to perceive our lives existing in different states of change.

At each level of change, we add another action and experience. So, regardless to our present conditions, whatever they might be, they only represent another piece of an incomplete life. We can still add other pieces.

The key to adding more pieces or experiences to our lives is to have clarity. This means we must detach ourselves from longing for the good old days. We must let the dead (past) bury itself.

Our memories of the past are nothing but an obituary read over and over again. And it reminds us that someone (us) close to us has passed away, and will never be with us again.

Today, regardless to what we think about our lives, this is the greatest opportunity we have to change our behavior. However, we must be mindful of what change means.

Mindful change doesn't mean we make a list of the things that are bothering us and set out to work on them one at at time. It means having the awareness and clarity to accept ourselves with limitless power.

To achieve this awareness and clarity, we must be willing to participate in self-discovery -- the process of discovering the origins of our victim beliefs. And the awareness to know that victim minds can only produce victim results.

For us to create enlightened results in our lives, we must have enlightened minds (consciousness).