With age comes happiness?

How will you define your life?

Peaceful land or rough sea? Two in one?

Desert?

Or maybe a diverse tropical forest? ...

Defining your own life is not easy at all, especially that its permanence is an illusion. Our lives can change at any moment.

However, when trying to define it, we ask ourselves the following questions:

Is every stage of a person's life important?

Is every stage of a person's life different?

Going through the stages of life, we change, but it is still our life and our fate, which cannot be predicted or planned.

Yes, we do plan, but how many of these plans come out exactly how we want them, frankly… not many.

Therefore, let's go with the flow, because it is the best way.

I often hear a statement that the senility is God’s failure. Nothing could be more wrong!

What would we be like if we were not overwhelmed by worries, diseases, and harms? If elderly people lived faster, grandparents would rush through their lives forgetting about their grandchildren and their children.

And since life slows down in old age, there is always time for the most important things, i.e. the family. Grandchildren and children then know that no matter how far they travel, they can always return home, because their parents are waiting for them there.

Sometimes we delay our returns and wait until it is too late. It happens. And there is no one to go back to.

Each of us must grow up to the next stage of our lives. And it doesn't matter how old you are. What’s truly important is your own soul.

When we pass the round magic dates: 20 years old, 30, 40, 50, 60 years and more, we tend to think that time is our enemy, it’s there to get us.

Nothing could be more wrong.

Each stage of life has its own rights and responsibilities. Just like every child wants to have their loving parents and every grandson wants to have his loving grandparents. Both parents and grandparents show them the world through their set of eyes.

Such a world has broader horizons, regardless of whether grandparents have blinkers on their eyes or not. Their reality is always different from that of their children and there is nothing wrong with that, because we are not clones, but individualists. And through the prism of such thinking it is easier to see and understand the world around us.

Young people, to emphasize their age, say that they "have their own rights" and they surely have them. But life goes on, it doesn't stop at 20 or 30.

We often hear that life really starts in your 50s.

When we meet years later, we find that Grażynka and Janusz are different people than we remember them from our youth.

And yet they are still the same people, with a whole new baggage of different experiences.

And although we are different, it is still US.

In fact, it is only up to us what we do with our life. How will we use this potential of the experiences we have been collecting over the years?

Is this new shape of life everything we dreamed of?

Every day we fight the battle between good and evil and it is only up to us what kind of energy we put aside for our future.

How fast we run forward.

Or perhaps we should take a step back sometimes.

We plan our life. We make resolutions (especially at the beginning of the year - hence my inspiration to write this summary) and this is understandable, but we found our plans being constantly verified by life itself.

There is no ready-made recipe for life. Why? Because too many factors contribute to this creation, and among these factors many of them DO NOT DEPEND ON US.

Each stage of life is extraordinary, exciting, amazing and unpredictable because it consists of various elements, such as:

- people who use to have an impact on our lives always rotate. Examples: pre-school stage, school stage, beginning of work stage, job shifts, loose relationships stage, permanent relationship stage, mom, dad, grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-grandfather stage, etc.

- our maturation, aging and acceptance of both. We find ourselves in trouble if we cannot accept that we are no longer super mobile, great in sport, strong and sharp minded. We have to admit to ourselves and to others that our senses have dulled. In this situation, only the last ones in the family chain remain somewhat still, not much changes for them, because they have been the oldest ones for years.

And what WE have influence on:

- on our priorities,

- to choose our role models (choose not copy, because it is a waste of time, life and energy),

- our attitude towards people,

- our attitude towards ourselves,

- not giving up despite our failures,

- picking up after each fall

- appreciating others,

- respecting others. It happens that we do not teach our children greetings, which is a mistake. When we walk by and greet each other "Good morning", it is as if a ray of sunshine is falling into our lives.

When we work and passersby tell us "God bless", we see the neighbors' respect for our work.

- no matter what stage of life you are at, never be indifferent to your loved ones or your family. Always keep your heart open

- let us always be run by feelings because they trigger action,

- attractiveness makes us feel good and loved, and it gives us wings,

- have passions no matter how old you are, big, small, one or many,

- to be needed - every person wants to be needed. Sometimes we are the ones that need help, otherwise we bend down to help others.

Each stage of life is different, but each one can be inspiring. Each stage can be experienced wonderfully.

Severe diseases are not evil at all, they ennoble us, make us see more, perceive reality more deeply and broadly, and make us sensitive to it.

We are unnecessarily afraid of growing up and getting old.

Fear frustrates us and destabilizes our lives, narrows our horizons, creates prejudices ... Our life is then sad, dull. It stops our creativity, inventions and our actions.

And the truth is: you need to open up to people, look with enthusiasm to the future, to the next stages of our lives. Each stage can be magical and beautiful.