By Asma Shums
Winter has set with full force, We have forgotten how the summer was. The heat is on jackets, coats, socks and all winter clothes are out. Imagine we have some function in a hall where spring, summer season is created. Everything is sunshine, warm, flowers and all so nice
Life after fifty – life in the winter stage, it may not be as youthful as before but it is still wonderful.
It is always the way you look at the things, whether the glass is half full or half empty, to be optimistic or a pessimist. All things and happening and situations are in their own place, the important thing is how we think about any situation, how we deal with it and how we accept it and take action about it. We just breathe and go on with life without giving serious thoughts unless we are forced to think the grass is always green on the other side, it seems like that. When we reach the age of 50 and plus we think, oh if only i was young I could have done these or those things differently. We always think about the physical and mental limitations, But we never concentrate on okay what is there it is but what next. If the season is cold we wear warm clothes, we do not play summer supports like cricket or football but we can play ice hockey or ski or play with snow. Yes, we can play indoor games. Some way we can still work and make a career that fits in our mental and physical state. In fact, we can do lots of things and activities which we could not do before due to our studies and career and family responsibilities
We can do lots of volunteer work.
We can relax and line daily life the way we always wished. Get up a little late if we feel like, finish the book we were reading. Do gardening as long as you want.
We can travel whichever place we always wanted to go and explore at our pace.
We can give full time and attention to our hobbies, in fact, we develop new hobbies.
We might be surprised to find out hidden or forgotten skills we have which we could not practice due to busy life. We never know we can do some great work
Friends and family- we can spend time with friends and family we can help them make their life more easy and comfortable.
Give-we can give back to family and society which we took till now, help favors which we might have taken granted think we always had help from our parents when we were young. Now we can look after our grandchildren and some of the house works and shopping etc. So our children can concentrate more on their career .life and career are more stressful and competition in this modern age of technology
We can also learn to take the help of all this advanced technology and do something i.e. if you are a good cook and love cooking, you can cook some dishes and post and share them. You can run online cooking classes. you may get Tiffin orders and earn at your own pace as well as enjoy your hobby
Talent –we can have enough time to explore our talents and help a family members to have theirs.
We can meet people, we can work in non-profit organizations, We can work hand in hand with youngsters. They can be helped with our experience and intelligence.
Its good time to make old meet new-
Last but not least is we understand that whoever is born is going to die so death is final step to meet our creator we should be ready to welcome that.
We also should accept that our body and mind which are tools are in effect of wear and tear so are going to give us trouble but we will work our life. Godsend us in this world non-polluted state, we must try to return his gift as much we can in pure, better and good state
Just chill – when day start we need money when day starts getting over we need peace, do not have arrogance ever anything even the grave if Sikander is not found.
