🏼 Author: Fahd Hamad Al-Moghlouth
🔴 Suddenly, I discovered that…
How many elderly people have I met throughout my life, and how many times have I believed that old age was still far away from me… When I was in the first quarter of my life, the fourth quarter seemed so distant that I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like. But here it is, this fourth quarter, knocking at my door, crossing my threshold, and stealing my youth.
My friends are retired, old men. They move slowly, hear with difficulty, understand with difficulty… Some are in better shape than me, others worse… But I notice major changes in their condition. They are no longer the young, vibrant people I once knew.
Today, we are the elderly people we used to see, never imagining we would become like them…
Today, I consider taking a simple shower a real goal of the day! And napping is no longer a choice; it has become a necessity! Because if I don’t take it of my own free will, I fall asleep where I sit…
And so begins a new season of my life, unprepared for the aches, pains, and loss of the ability to do things I would have liked to accomplish but never did!!
How many things have I regretted doing, and how many have I regretted not doing? I also discovered that there are many things I used to love doing that I can no longer do today…
So if you’re not yet in the last quarter of your life, let me remind you that it will come sooner than you think…
So, whatever you want to achieve in your life, do it quickly!
Don’t wait!! Life goes by quickly… so do what you can today, because you can never be sure that you won’t already be in your last quarter…!!
There’s no guarantee that you’ll see all the seasons of your life. So live the present to the fullest, do and say everything you would like your loved ones to remember you by. And hope that they will love you and be grateful for everything you’ve done for them over the years…
“Life” is a gift given to you. How you live it is your gift to those who come after you… Make it wonderful. Live it to the fullest!
Enjoy your day. Do something pleasant. Be happy.
I wish you a wonderful day.
Remember that “health” is true wealth, not gold or silver…
It’s good to keep the following things in mind: ~ Going out is good.
~ Coming home is even better.
~ Forgetting names is okay—some people have even forgotten they knew you.
~ You know now that you’ll never be an expert on everything.
~ The things you used to do don’t interest you as much today.
~ You fall asleep in your recliner in front of the TV more easily than in your own bed…
~ You miss the days when everything operated simply with an on/off switch.
~ You use more and more short words like: “Huh?”, “When?”
~ You have a lot of clothes in your closet… and you know you’ll never wear half of them.
And old things take on more value than ever before in your life.
Best of all: old friends!!
Send this message to your old friends and have a good laugh together. Remember: it’s not what you accumulate that matters, but what you say, because it reveals the life you’ve lived…
Finally… and perhaps this is the whole wisdom of life:
We know very well that we cannot add time to our lives…
But we can add life to our time.
O Lord, grant us a beautiful end to our lives.
