You can be young throughout life.
The brilliant cellist Pablo Casals was 90.
Lots of people his age would obsess over death or illness. And talk gloomily.
But not Pablo. He thought and talked of new life instead. He remained active.
Each day, Pablo was reborn playing his music to the world.
PsychoCybernetics founder, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, writes of “adventure in lifelong youth:”
“You stay young. Your age does not matter. This is high adventure, for many people surrender to age, bow before it, and fear it more than reality justifies. But you, each if you are 60 or 65 or older, you refuse to obsess yourself with thoughts of your age. You feel young. You renounce physical activities that your age excludes you from, but your thinking is young. It is new. It is fresh. You renounce the passive life of many older people. You live actively. You renounce the yesterday-type thinking of many older people. You live today. And in this youthfulness you can relax – young or old.”
“Routine causes ageing,” another medical doctor and author, Paul Tournier, once observed.
He said that this premature ageing buries the individual all the deeper in routine.
Dr. Tournier advocates his own brand of lifelong youth: to stay open to a multiplicity of interests is to prepare for ourselves a lasting youth and a retirement free from boredom.
I feel forever young as a writer and psychotherapist.
As I look at the rolling of years and passing seasons in my life, my writing and psychotherapy work get me younger!
They’re activities in my senior life that continue to develop my eye for newness and beauty. An eye for possibilities!
This eye for seeing beyond what I see and cherishing it is my lifelong adventure for youth.
It’s God’s wonderful gift to me where I am now.
“One should never count the years – one should count one’s interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I am glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.” — Helen Keller, American educator
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