Your understanding of the life you’re living will be limited to your physical and psychological experiences.
Your physical life is relatively easy to understand, you’re born weak and helpless, you grow fitter and stronger every day until one day you realise you’ve started the return journey to weakness, not helpless because you’re now an adult. You’ll fight to remain strong for as long as you can. However, one day, old age will catch up with you, and you’ll depart from this life.
Your psychological journey has quite a different beginning. You’re born into a world of chaos that no amount of knowledge contained within your DNA is going to help you grow without outside help. For the first nine months of your existence your every need has been taken care of by your own DNA and your mother, now that you’ve experienced the cold light of reality, you’re probably screaming no, no, no, if you knew what no meant. It’s not the best way to start learning about life, but it’s a journey every human makes.
Over the next ninety or so years, you’ll learn to fit in or not fit into the society you were born into.
In the early years, it’s your parents who are responsible for laying the foundation on which you will build your life. The perfect parents will raise the perfect child to be the perfect adult, that would be perfect except there’s no such thing as a perfect parent.
During your teenage years, you’ll develop into the image of an adult without the experience of knowing what it is to be an adult. These should really be called the stumbling years because you stumble from one crisis to another. Of course, when you look back on your life, you’ll understand they weren’t a crisis at all. You were just trying to find your own identity. The problem was that you were looking to find it in the outside world instead of inside of you.
Your twenties can be broken into two segments, party, party, party to maybe I don’t want to party anymore?
Your thirties have arrived, and you’re prepared to admit you’re an adult and should behave like one, but which one? You’ve never been this age before, then one foggy Christmas Eve, you’ll look in the mirror and realise you’ve become the image of your parent. How this came about is a surprise until you realise it is the foundation on which your life was built.
During your forties, you’ll either embrace the person you’ve become or you’ll set about changing yourself to create the person you want to be.
If you choose to embrace the person you’ve become, the next forty years will be filled with few surprises, however, if you’ve chosen the latter course of action, you’ll find that person during your fifties and you will continue to evolve over the next forty years, you’ll gain an insight into life that will allow you to face death without fearing you never lived.
At each stage of your life your physical body will mirror your internal thought process, if you’re not happy with your body it’s your mind you need to work on because, your psychological journey and your physical journey are as intertwined as the double helix contained within your DNA. A psychologically sound mind will keep your body healthy.
P.S. Do you recognise your life?
