When do you Age?

When do you Age?

Every tick of the clock takes you one step into the aging process. An average human grows only for twenty three to twenty six years. From there it is the slow process of decay. Though these physical changes are hardly perceptible during your early middle age, the decline gets steeper as you go into the fifth and sixth decades of your life. This means that lots of your physical and later on mental faculties start slowing. This is nature’s way of calling it quits with its creations, much the same way a mountain crumbles.

The period when the decline is very noticeable is the later middle age. While most of the changes are gradual some of the changes are quite sudden and can be shockingly disheartening for the person. From being a 10mile sprinter without stopping to being hardly able to walk half that distance, can happen over the period of less than a year. This leads to confusion and later on fear in the mind. More than the effects physically, the mental and emotion effects can be startling. This is equally bad for both men and women. This turns normally likable and fun-filled humans into grumpy monsters, with little control over their emotions.

Today, science has found ways to increase life expectancy effectively but medical processes related to beating age is a long way behind. This means there are a lot of people with uncertainties related to their aging and what comes with it. However few things have been proven to be effective in curbing the negative impacts of physical aging.

Continuing on with your activities, with youthful enthusiasm and zest. What your mind tells you is truly what you are. What you did yesterday, you can do today and will be able to do tomorrow. This short term goal setting makes you able to carry on without fear and clears uncertainties from you mind. This also ensure that you will continue to be functional and hence youthfully active for a much longer time

Hiding behind the excuse of age related illness is a common way of shirking responsibility and a growing trend amongst early retirees. Taking and early retirement claiming lack of health and entrusting their own wellbeing on immediate family is on the growth. These people bring old age upon themselves rather than nature imposing it on them. These people have a negative impact not just on themselves but on those they come in contact with. Another way for you to stay youthful and health is to avoid such people. They are easily identified by their constant complaining of their age related ailments and the lack of care from the world around. Avoid them like plague.

If you are the sporty type, continue with those activities. Your capabilities may come down just a bit as you go forth, but look positively at the fact that you are still in the ring, so to say. However if you are a starter, it may not be the best of ideas to beat yourself by starting with a ten mile jog.  Stretch yourself to within your comfort levels and increase with time. You will surprise yourself with the results.

Perhaps the most important part is to be creative and abreast of all thing happening in the society. Keeping up with the latest trend could slow your aging considerably. Being in the company of people on the move will actually reverse the aging process. The best would be if you were to be creative, and to set in motion newer things that benefit yourself and the society. You are what you think you are. Your age can slow you physically, but if you give it a fight back, it will take a step backwards. To do so or not is the choice you always have. Ultimately, it is not how many years you lived that really matters, but how you lived those years you lived.