Day 279: On Learning With Ag
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It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die; it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
As time passes, one might feel tempted to believe that their best years are behind them. Now decay commences, and things can only get worse. How about looking at it from a different point of view and embracing aging as the learning process?
I like to say that if in five years I’m the same person that I am today, then I’ll have failed. Ideally, in five years I should feel slightly uncomfortable about the type of a person I was in the past.
Aging is not merely about your body’s cells dividing and multiplying — it’s also about your knowledge
, which (if you make an effort to do so) constantly expands, gives you new perspectives and helps you live an ever better life.
You can look at aging in both ways: a process of deterioration or a process of improvement. Which attitude will bring more happiness and success in your life?