Growing older can be a time of self-fulfilment, reflection, time spent with the younger generation, travelling, just enjoying life and being happy. But are you living your “golden years” as you ought to?
As we grow older, inner happiness is something we must work consciously to develop and strengthen. The path to inner happiness and solitude is important and can help fend off illnesses.
For many, growing older often leads to energy loss, disease, mental issues and a variety of other ailments. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. People can still enjoy life at any age.
Here are eight positive ways to live a fruitful and fulfilling life.
1. Observe healthy practices. Eat healthy including raw vegetables and fruit every day, and avoid unhealthy substances like drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Don’t overeat.
Take up physical activities like walking, jogging and swimming, and practise positive thinking or even doing silly, funny things.
2. Exercise. Go to the gym and work out using light weights or an exercise bike. Make it a point to sweat once a day and try a physical activity for at least one hour a day.
3. Practise yoga and meditation. Be positive and bring calm to all those worries. Practise this diligently every day.
4. Read a book for one hour a day. See more of the world through the written word. Do indulge in dreaming and using your imagination on anything that takes your fancy.
5. Take up some hobbies and learn something new. If a person is relatively healthy and of sound mind, there is so much they can still do.
6. Make new friends and catch up with old ones. Find friends online and in social organisations like the Lions, Rotary Club or YMCA, or at your local mosque, church or temple. Life is better with friends.
7. Don’t keep worrying about the “afterlife”. Enjoy life to its fullest. A person really cannot control when their time is up, so stop worrying about it.
8. Disregard what others think. Focus on living a long and fulfilling life and doing what you want to do no matter what anyone else thinks. Remember age is only a number, so get out there and enjoy life before it’s too late.
This article was written by Andrew Mastrandonas, Co-founder & CEO of Pillar (www.pillarcare.com) and reviewed by Dr Lim Geng Yan (M.D). Pillar provides a range of elderly home caregiving services, sending trained and certified professional caregivers and nurses to clients’ homes. For more information please visit https://care.pillarcare.com/fmtpromo