It’s not only in the dictionary that we find a wide gap between age and wisdom. The same can be said for a lived life.
While we would hope that there is more than a little truth in the belief that years added equates to improvements in understanding, a boost in acceptance and a more focused and comfortable insight into self and surroundings it’s not always necessarily the case.
The best we can hope for is that the passage of time brings with it increased capacity to deal with the setbacks and challenges that will always be with us along with a greater and increasing appreciation of all the good that we encounter.
We have the ability to decide what we will do with what we have and how we will enjoy where we are each and every day.
No-one can make those decisions for us. We live our own lives.
Our most significant expectations should be those of our own creation. What others want and wish for us – good or bad – stays in their own realm unless we decide to allow it into our own space.
Our first responsibility – physical and psychological – must be to ourselves. It’s when self care is either forgotten or neglected that problems arise.
We may not always pick the path but we decide the steps we take along it.
Gary Bentley Counselling 