Nov 28 2008
Great Expectations Over 50
Once we pass the ripe old age of 50, things change. I’m not talking about the shift in muscle mass, the gray or white strands in our hair (or the total lack of hair), the presbyopia that attacks our vision or the way certain foods affect us like they never did before.
No, I’m talking about changes in the way we see things. In the way we dream dreams. In the way we anticipate what lies ahead in life.
By this time in life, many (most?) of us have faced some close calls with our health or our lives in general, or we have had people close to us face these close calls. We know for a fact, no room for doubt, that we are not immortal. At twenty-two we might have felt like there was an infinite amount of time before us. Now we know better.
This general way of thinking falls in line with the Tim McGraw song, Live Like You Were Dying. If you know you have a finite amount of time left to live, it’s important to get on with the business of living. Do what you want to do. See the parts of the world you want to see. Create what is in you to create. Before it’s too late.
Like Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List, we need our own list of things to do before we die.
Drop and e-mail and help us start our own list here at Fit Over 50. I will start the list on this site today.
