Thursday, February 19, 2009

For those who think they have crossed mid-life

1. Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in or
accumulating material things.

2. Plan to spend whatever you have saved.. You
deserve to enjoy it and the healthy years you have
left. Travel if you can afford it.

Don't leave anything for your children or loved
ones to quarrel about.
By leaving too much, you may even cause more
trouble when y ou are gone.

3. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays
and tomorrows. It is only today that you can handle.
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen.

4. Enjoy your grandchildren (if blessed with any)
but don't be their full time baby sitter.
You have no moral obligation to take care of them.
Don't have any guilt about refusing to baby sit
anyone's kids, including your own grandkids.
Your parental obligation is to your children.
After you have raised them into responsible adults,
your duties of child-rearing and babysitting are
finished. Let your children raise their own off-springs.

5. Accept physical weakness, sickness and other
physical pains. It is a part of the ageing process.
Enjoy whatever your health can allow.

6. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now.
Stop working hard for what you do not have.
If you don't have them, it's probably too late.

7. Enjoy your life with your spouse, children,
grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love
you, love you for yourself, not for what you
have. Anyone who loves you for what you have will just
give you misery. And you'd probably know that by now.

8. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourself
and others. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul.

9. Not trying to be morbid, but befriend death.
It's a natural part of the life cycle.
Don't be afraid of it. Death is the beginning of
a new and better life.
So, prepare yourself not for death but for a new
life with the Almighty.

10. Be at peace with your Creator. For ..... He is
all you have after you leave this sojourn on Earth.

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