Forty: Life Starts Here

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Forty: Life Starts Here

by Paula Burgner

Last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another opportunity to impress us. The new year is a fresh start, an opportunity to start over again without any judgment, ties, or baggage. You must learn to treat everything that has happened before today as a rehearsal preparing you for the 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 measurement of age. Your age is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity for growth to be achieved. You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream. Just remember, it is not the years in our life that count, but the life in those years that makes it all worth wild.

The truth is that aging seems to be the only way to live a long life. Most of us are starting to see the wrinkles trying to show up. However, those wrinkles show that you have laughed, the grey hair shows you have cared, and the scars show that you have lived. The scars we get in this lifetime can be thought of like a permeant tattoo. Some of them are from good memories and some are the things that we have endured throughout our life.

Wisdom comes once you have gone through hard winters. Wisdom is like snow, once it covers the ground it beautifies everything that it touches. In order to appreciate the beauty of the snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. Throughout the years, I have gained strength, wisdom, and respect for this life that I have been given.

I have learned to enjoy this life and take each day with a grateful heart.

We have to remember that with each passing year (do not think of it as getting older because age is just a number), we are given the opportunity for a new chance to learn more, love more, and enjoy this life more. Just as the Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” So, with each passing year that comes around, celebrate that new start to another great year in the life that you are given.

About The Author 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.