Lifestyles Ideas Management - Growing Older

Just that day, a special day in the morning when I was on my way to the office building, I stopped by the Impreza Café to buy my breakfast. I like the vermicelli with luncheon meat and dashed with spicy chilli sauce. While waiting in queue and my turn came, the uncle serving over the counter, a bald head man also the boss of this café called out to be “Young girl, what’s for breakfast” I thought he was calling someone else behind me and I looked behind my back. “So sickening” it was my turn and he called the next person standing at the back. But he called out aloud” Young girl, what’s for breakfast”. Oh! La la, he was referring to me. That makes my day! The vermicelli and luncheon meat tasted super delicious that early morning. I dislike and hate those who called me “Auntie” though I knew that it was a respectful mannerism but I felt old when someone called me “Auntie”. I preferred my neighborhood fruit and vegetables stall owner to address me as “Miss or Madam” when I passed by their shops. Once I stopped by a new fruit stall and chose some fruit to bring along on my way to the office, the owner called me “Auntie”> Do you know what I did immediately, I took out all the fruits in my basket and put them back and walked away without looking back. The owner was very puzzled over my action. What did I do wrong that this young Miss or Madam walked away without buying anything from my shop? He was not young at all and he called me “Auntie” this kind of addressing is humiliating to any potential customer. I certainly do not want to perceive myself as someone who is growing old but someone growing older but wise no doubt.
It is not possible to be happy in old age when we looked at the mirror with more and more wrinkles coming up around the edges of the eyes, time to change the mirror.
I like to believe that I will be growing older and living a meaningful life. I am no long productive as being productive has to do with economic value. But growing older means I am less and less productive, one day I will be unproductive. Since, one day I will be unproductive, I have decided to do without some materialism. I will only purchase what I need for my daily life, the essentials. I will buy watches as long as they can still tell the time. I prefer a less complicated life, without the trapping of material well-being. My value will be satisfaction in my work and work is only one part of my life. I will concentrate planning my life around the weekends, working out plans for the holidays around the year, and enhance my physical wellness by exercising my body. I hope to be able to climb my last mountain before my last breath is taken away.

I will learn to live with little regrets, to live each moment as if it is the last, treasure my relationship with people who mean something to me and leave behind some wonderful memories in other’s mind. So that when I passed away, people can remembered some little things and leave behind some smiles. Finally I seek satisfaction, contentment and be like an old trees with spread branches that every birds in the air takes refuge in my branches. I am growing older not growing old.