Life is lived in stages primarily as we increase in age. As it were, the older a person, the stronger he should be in dealing with life and people. One naturally outgrows childishness as he becomes older except in the presence of some abnormalities like mental retardation, family curse or the likes.
It is normal if a child displays childish traits because his mind is still tender and unschooled. This of course influences his thought and action in equal proportion. Hence, I wont blame a child if he acts like a child but I will raise an eyebrow when an adult doesn’t act as one. Apostle Paul wrote,
“when I was a child, I spake as a child,
understood as a child and thought as a child
but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
It is an abuse of adulthood when an adult behaves without discretion or like a toddler continuously because by nature he should be do better and that’s why we are disappointed when we see a fool at forty. I grew up in Northern Nigeria. We use this slang when an adult is in the habit of acting foolishly : “Shi yaro ne” meaning he’s still a child. We joke over this but it’s the truth. A man is a child if he consistently behaves like one. King Solomon writes, “foolishness is found in the soul of a child…” I completely agree.
Deed not age is the factor that measures maturity and for me, it determines our happiness in life too. Despite our all-grown appearance, actions often give us up. It simply means we’ve not been growing or living – just floating. This is a honest question we all should ask ourselves – I’ve asked myself the same question in the wee hours of today. “At my age, does my action synchronize with my age? Don’t be deceived by your intimidating frame and bulky years and hey stop bragging about age if you aint acting as one. Age is the least thing in life to brag about. At age 23, the CEO of Facebook is a billionaire. What are you bragging about? This obviously shows that age alone does not determine success in life. Hence the richest is not the oldest but one who could allow his mind grow with his body. Sometimes, all we have to brag about is age. We say, “I aint your mate or when I was in the university, you were in diapers.” And so what? I don’t know about you, but it bothers me that at my age, I’ve not made history. What’s there to brag about? Anybody who acts like a baby is a baby no matter how old he claims he is because the only part he allows to grow is his body not his mind. That’s an unbalanced growth.
I challenge you to think. More is expected from you today than yesterday because of the maturity and experience that comes with age. If you are fond of repeating the mistakes you made yesterday, you aint growing – that’s a fact. Determine to do things better everyday - It shows that you have overcome yesterday and ready for today.
Today, just like every other day opens another page and place us on another stage. The stage to act better than the days hitherto. Your today’s action and choices should be better than yesterday’s because each day blesses us with afresh strength to live differently and maturely than the day before. Hence, today grants us the opportunity and extra grace to correct the foolishness of yesterday and also to live more discretely in today. Everyday dawns with a new capacity for you to act bigger, talk bigger, think bigger and live bigger because you are. Make the most of it because you will never have another.
I hope this makes sense to you.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
* Yesterday is past, tomorrow is the future. Today is the gift that’s why it’s called the present
* When you waste you money, you are only out of money but when you waste your time, you have lost a part of your life.
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see you next week. Purest Love.
