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WotD: Make headway
Age is a funny thing.
When we are young, we think anyone over 29 is ancient.
Then, once we hit 40, we’re told our best years are already behind us.
However, from about 50 onwards, things begin to look up and up and up.
I know this because I created a lesson about midlife happiness called ‘The Happy Middle.’
Life is all about making headway – moving forward and progressing.
As I become older, I realize more and more each day that humans were designed to do this.
We are built to make headway.
It’s amusing because we hate change and want to avoid it at all costs, but everything we do is for the sole purpose of progressing, making things better and moving on to a better and brighter future.
In February 2020, just before the pandemic upended the universe, the Japanese government announced they would amend the laws to enable people to work until they turn 70.
Many people, including me, were up in arms about it.
Who wants to work until they are 70?
They are turning us into slaves!
Then, I realized it was an opportunity.
Our lives do not stop.
Sure, we may slow down and have more aches and pains than in our youth – I’ve had a sore back for six days now – but we continue to make headway.
Yuichiro Miura summited Mount Everest at 70.
No, I’m not saying we can all do that, but what I am saying is that we can all continue to make headway and contribute to society and humanity in our own way.
Humans are designed to make headway continuously.
Age is a funny thing, but it’s also just a number.
Never give up on making headway in your life.
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