Embracing life, death, and aging
Does growing older make you angry?
Peter Newhouse, writing at the Winning at Home website, shares some interesting reflections on health and lifestyle changes as we grow older. As we age, certain lifestyle changes are forced upon us–we must adjust our diets, activities, and social lives to remain healthy. Should we be resentful of the aging process? Newhouse writes about his own frustration with aging:
Despite how good these new behaviors were, I was mad and felt cheated because I had to adopt a new lifestyle. It didn’t seem fair that I would have to make changes to my diet when everybody else still got to eat burgers and fries. As time went on and I got more comfortable with my new dietary regimen, my attitude changed and I developed a superiority complex of sorts. (On one instance, I went to a restaurant for dinner and looked around with disgust over what ”those people” around me were willing to eat - even though I had eaten the same things only a few weeks prior.)
There’s a better way to live, Newhouse suggests–an attitude that is neither obsessed with aging and death, nor in denial of them. Read the full article to find out how he adjusted his own way of thinking about growing older.
