AGING
IF you want to know what aging means talk to me. The term “aging” conjures up thoughts like – “beauty creams”, “botox” and, biological, decaying of body cells. Aging does not necessarily always begin when you approach a pensionable age. Psychologically, it can get triggered at any age and have different impact on different people. So, the question is what does “aging” mean? It means, simply, running short of time. It’s the feeling that makes you believe that you are gradually approaching the end of many things; several doors getting shut with not many getting open, causing an imbalance which is towards the negative.
Getting marked with crow’s feet is not the only realization of being infected by aging but also the fact that you believe that your date card makes you ineligible for many things. At 26, you can be called aged for many things, like you cannot think of joining a cricket academy and plan for making a career in cricket or think of a day when you would be bowling faster than shoaib akhtar at an international platform when you have never crossed 100mph while bowling in gully cricket matches in your long 26 yeas of existence. At 26, you are too old to start practicing ping-pong and dream that in some distant Olympics you are going to astonish the Chinese or the Koreans by hitting faster smashes. If you have not yet started then at 26 it’s hard to believe that at this age if you start practicing lawn tennis then one day you are going to win all the four grand slams. Even if you do make it to the international circuit after starting as an amateur at 26, when many players are called veterans, the day you reach the center court of Wimbledon it would be most likely going to be sunset for you. So, all the doors that lead to a great career in sports get closed at 26 if you are yet to make a start.
One of the best money making careers – sports - slips out of your hands at the age of 26 if you are still a beginner. So, aging occurs at all age, it’s just that your mind can avoid it. If you think and feel young then you are young even at 99.
You know what, I am just 26 years old. : - )
Comments
Kumar Vijay Mishra.
Well! 26 is just a number and age is one's state of mind.
We may not be able or allowed to do few things based on age becuse we all adhere to certain unwritten rules and the best suited age to do a particular thing is either gone or yet to come.