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17/09/2024

THE ART OF AGEING GRACEFULLY

Think about it, you have EARNED this face.
Every line, a laugh shared.
Every wrinkle, a year survived.
Every age spot, a day that the sun shone on you.

Some women believe that as they age, they LOSE their looks. Oh my friends how wrong this is.
A beautiful young women is a happy accident of nature but a beautiful older woman?
She is a work of art.

The Japanese have a practice whereby they fill any broken objects with gold, believing that something which is broken has earned its beauty and should be celebrated and decorated rather than discarded.

I feel this way about women.

It took a long time to find out who you really truly are. A long time. The acceptance that old age brings is freeing. It brings with it peace and happiness.
Everyone knows, happiness looks good on us all.

Your body has been changing since the day you were born and will continue till the day you depart. Ride with it, accept it, embrace it. Be amazed by it.
Allow your face to represent your life, your stories, your joys.

Why choose to be an older woman fervently chasing youth, when you could be that older women who knows what she is worth and has earned every minute of her hard-won self-acceptance.

The trick with ageing successfully my friend, is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
✨

Donna Ashworth
From ‘To The Women’

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Beautiful art by Autumn Skye ART

17/09/2024

1. Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet them again on your way back down.
2. Set an example. Treat everyone with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.

3. Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor forgiveness for acceptance. It’s about knowing resentment of any kind is not on the path to happiness.

4. Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be used. Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice.

5. Say what you need to say. Speak your truth. There is no greater sadness than holding on to the words you never had the courage to speak.

6. You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react and who you choose to be around.

7. Negative company will never give you a positive life. Examine what you tolerate in the long-term.

8. What you allow is what will continue. It’s always better to spend more time alone than allow negative people and their opinions to derail you from your destiny.

17/09/2024

Once there was a man renting a room. He was a dish washer, struggling with bills.

His landlord would treat him really terribly, insulting him and making him feel like he was worth nothing.

Little did she know that the reason he was struggling to pay rent on time was because his mother was dying of cancer. All the money was going in the medical bills.

Long story made short. Ten years later, they meet up again and this time, she sees him dressed up looking more clean and wealthy.

She approaches him with more respect forgetting that it’s the same person she used to insult and bring down.

He climbed out of poverty, and ended up owning several homes.

Moral of the story: Never look down on anyone in this life unless you’re trying to help them up.

Janitors deserve respect, not because they could become CEOs tomorrow, but because they’re humans.

17/09/2024

A son took his father to a restaurant to enjoy a delicious dinner. His father was quite old and a little weak.

While eating, food occasionally fell on his shirt and pants, and some food was also left around his mouth.

The other guests looked at the old man with strange looks, but his son remained calm.

After they both finished eating, the son quietly helped his father and took him to the toilet. He wiped food scraps from his face and tried to wash food stains off his clothes; he combed his hair and put on his glasses again.

When he left the restroom, there was a deep silence in the restaurant.

The son was about to pay the bill when another old man stood up and asked the son, 'Don't you think you left something here? ' The young man replied, 'No, I didn't leave anything.'

Then the stranger said to him, 'You have left a lesson here for every son and a hope for every father! "

The whole restaurant was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

(borrowed from Earth 2.0 Genesis on Telegram)

23/08/2022

22/08/2022

Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humour though, will only get better.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
And your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore,
that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritize the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better.

— Donna Ashworth

photo credit:
Elen Jordano
by Phillipe Vogelenzang

22/08/2022

Two beggars live in a forest, near a city. Naturally they are enemies, because they are in the same profession and in competition. One is blind and one is lame. And they are always quarreling about their clients. You don’t know what beggars say about you. They have their clients, they have their territories.

Beggars are continuously fighting. There is great struggle and competition. And those two beggars had been enemies for years. But one day the forest caught fire. The blind man was perfectly able to walk and run, but it was dangerous. He could not see whether he was going in the right direction, where there was no fire, or whether he was running through the fire towards more.

The lame man could not run on his own. And the fire was spreading so fast and the winds were so strong, but he could see that there was still a possibility to get out. There were a few places where the fire had not reached yet. But soon it would be reaching there. Soon, they would be covered by fire from all over the place. They both forgot all their antagonism, competition. This was not the time to fight, this was a time to unite.

And the blind man took upon his shoulders the lame man, and they became one personality. Now they had eyes and they had legs, both. The lame man could see, and direct where they had to run, and fast – and which directions had to be avoided. And the blind man was strong enough to run, carrying the lame man on his shoulders. They came out of the forest without being injured.

Moral

This ancient story is about your mind and your heart. Your heart can see, but cannot say.
Your mind can say, but cannot see.
If you are capable of bringing your heart and mind closer, your love and logic closer, your experience and expression closer, perhaps mind can also say something significant.
It may not be complete, it may not be an entire expression, but it may be an indication in the right direction.
It may be a finger pointing to the moon.
It may not be the moon, but it can indicate towards the moon.