Who Says Life’s Over at 50’s and So On?

Admit it or not nobody ever wanted to get old (though maybe some).  Almost all of us have this certain fear just imagining the thought of being one (and whether we admit it or not, certain feelings usually applied to women).  True indeed, we even show deep concerned when we notice visible fine lines or wrinkles in our face or skin.  Gee thanks to the modern technologies that had come up already of different means and ways of getting rid looking old or let’s say maintaining the youthfulness we had. 

And yes, of course, we always wanted to looked young, to feel young so that we may be able to enjoy all the world has to offer.  For we have this notion that once people get old, it keeps or hinder them of achieving things they still longs to achieve.  And of course, I can say that everybody’s familiar with this certain line  “ Hey dude, enjoy life as it is while you’re still young, do what you want for once you become old, you’ll no longer able to do that, so make the most out of it!” things like that or something to that matter. 

But c’mmon people!  If we looked to it and should be really realistic, we really know for a fact that we cannot stop the time from running.  Just like the flowers and trees, started into full bloom and then when at their peak weathered.  Just like the animals that once had their life being a baby, time would come they really gets old and die afterwards.

And people had never been an exception.  We too came to the point of getting old and that’s a fact that we just can’t simply ignore!  But hey, who says getting old means being unworthy or useless?  Who says that there’s no more room for life just because people were old?  Who says we won’t be able to do anything anymore just because you just had turned 50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s or even 90’s?

Well do take look at what some have accomplished after 60, the official retirement age in many countries and maybe you too get hooked and be inspired:

• Leo Tolstoy was learning to ride a bike at 67.
• Auguste Rodin was doing some of his finest sculptures after 70.
• Buonarotti Michelangelo was painting the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel when he was 70.
• Giuseppe Verdi was composing the opera Otello at 75 and Falstaff at 80.
• Anatole France at 80 and Thomas Hardy at 88 were in the full flush of their literary creation.
• Mother Teresa is still helping the poor in India at 84.
• Thomas Edison was inventing the telephone at 84.
• Elizabeth Arden was still managing her cosmetics company at 85.
• Ellen G.White, a prolific author of voluminous religious books, was still writing at 87.
• Franc Wright was designing a civic center at 88.
• Michelangelo whom we mentioned earlier was designing churches at 88.
• Albert Schweitzer was operating his hospital in Africa at 89.
• Peter Roget was updating his thesaurus at 90.
• George Bernard Shaw was writing plays at 91.
• Leopold Stokowski was signing a six-year recording contracts at 94.
• Pablo Casals was playing the cello at 96.
• Vecellio Titian was painting his Battle of Lepanto after the age of 80.

They are just some of the list of the people who never stops achieving things in life that they still want to accomplished and achieved!  Hmmmm, just what do you think?  Say your piece!