I like people who do not associate doing anything in life with their age. As we age we starting developing these mental blocks that we cannot do this and that. When I decided to do the Everest Trek a lot of people reacted at me in a very amused manner as if I was doing something incorrectly. Some of them even passed comments like, will you be able to do it at this age. My age is 50 and many thought that I would not be able to do it at this age. Even when I returned back, some of them passed comments like, it's incredible that you did it at this age.
Which means that my ability was not there but yet I did. Why do people have to associate activities with age and not with one's fitness levels or goals. Honestly, I keep talking a lot about my trek, because it has opened me up in many ways and taught me many things. While on the trek I was watching people much older then me trekking up and at a much faster speed then me or even some youngsters. For a moment I thought it was commendable, but then I would think that by thinking in that manner I also sailing in the same boat as others.
It was just that their fitness level was good and hence they could do it. Forget these adventures. If a person falls in love at a later age in life or wants to get married at a late age in life many look at it in a unacceptable manner. Especially in my part of the world, because there is a hard conditioning that marriage has to happen by a certain age and then one should have children by a certain age. No one wants to see here old parents, once you cross a certain age then it means that you can only be grandparents and not parents.
In the western world these things do not matter much, but here it does. There are strange ways of life associated with age. Once you cross a certain age you are expected to behave in a certain manner. There are lot of taboos associated with age. Old people doing things differently are not aliens. They have different level of energy and hence they are able to do it. After all everything is about energy, whether it is physical or mental. So there is no need to be amused if an old person is living life just like a normal young person. I personally believe that nothing should be associated with age, it is about one's will, determination and capability to do things or not to do things.
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