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Forty: Life Starts Here
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by Paula Burgner
ast year’s words belong to last year’s language,
Wisdom comes once you have gone through hard
and next year’s words await another opportunity
winters. Wisdom is like snow, once it covers the ground it
to impress us. The new year is a fresh start, an
beautifies everything that it touches. In order to appreciate
opportunity to start over again without any judgment, ties,
the beauty of the snowflake, it is necessary to stand out
or baggage. You must learn to treat everything that has
in the cold. Throughout the years, I have gained strength,
happened before today as a rehearsal preparing you for the
wisdom, and respect for this life that I have been given.
journey ahead. Forty is a new decade of adventure that awaits. In life, you don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop finding the joy in life. Getting older is like a beautiful painting. It is a work of art to be enjoyed, and yet some never get to make it to that gallery of life. Be confident that you are a perfect age. Each year we are given is special and priceless. You will only live this life once. Be comfortable with growing older because age has no barrier, it is just a limitation that you put in your mind. Our faces can say a lot, as they carry all of our memories—some bad and some good. However, we have to keep a good attitude because attitude is the true
I have learned to enjoy this life and take each day with a
measurement of age. Your age is not lost youth but a new
grateful heart.
stage of opportunity for growth to be achieved. You are
We have to remember that with each passing year (do
never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream. Just
not think of it as getting older because age is just a number), we
remember, it is not the years in our life that count, but the
are given the opportunity for a new chance to learn more,
life in those years that makes it all worth wild.
love more, and enjoy this life more. Just as the Bible tells us
The truth is that aging seems to be the only way to live
in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ,
a long life. Most of us are starting to see the wrinkles trying
he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
to show up. However, those wrinkles show that you have
all things are become new.” So, with each passing year that
laughed, the grey hair shows you have cared, and the scars
comes around, celebrate that new start to another great year
show that you have lived. The scars we get in this lifetime
in the life that you are given.
can be thought of like a permeant tattoo. Some of them are endured throughout our life.
20 // January 2022
About The Author
from good memories and some are the things that we have Paula Burgner is a very strong willed, outgoing, girl who loves working out, and she believes in her heart that you are capable of doing anything that you put your mind to.
