Age, the body is getting older day by day, the experience, learning procedure and the increasing level of maturity ( I’m not sure about this because I’ve experienced so many grown ups or adults who were unable to handle the situation i.e. hard to say ‘mature’). Today I’ve seen Jumanji- the next level and this idea came in my mind to write about an article on the topic of Age because in the movie the grandpa of main lead hates his age but after having an experience of Jumanji world the last dialogue he says that, “very few are fortunate to be old”.
Today’s time where the uncertainty of life is becoming a huge challenge infront of us. If we just get the information about two or three decades before, the generation of that time was little bit of more fortunate than us. The life went on simple and uncomplicated ways (I know every generation has its problems). Sometimes less amount of knowledge also helps to live happily and that generation was the perfect example. I know they had many challenges, when we got independence the biggest challenge was to settle down the nation which was separated by many princely states and later to establish the constitution to involve everyone, but the most of the population was illiterate and below the poverty line i.e. used that word less knowledge to indicate some of the population. The era was associated with Nehru, and on the celluloid Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Devanand showed their talent. But later in seventies the angry young man came with his baritone voice, similarly under the leadership of Indira Gandhi India won the war and after some years also had seen the emergency. The whole ups and downs were there. Nineties was the period where government had its uncertainty, many persons took the charge of PMO but very few succeeded to complete whole term. This is just a little bit of information about the history but the one thing is similar that every generation has its own story to say. Our nation also has completed its seventy two happy years so in this pandemic situation little bit of celebration can be done at our home to show the respect for our young seventy two years old nation. It’s just a joke but I think we need to develop a lot.
But I really want to say that, could it be possible to celebrate the tag of senior citizen? As a youth if I think about this then besides of physical health the good thing about being aged is to gain the level of maturity (again not sure). The big family, lots of friends and colleagues, if the life had invested in a good way then could have been with good financial status all things matter a lot. This oldness came to everyone’s life; Buddha, Krishna, Ram all had gone on through this phase. We have an example of many people who started their different career at the older age. Boman Irani in acting, who came in the line at 44 with Munna Bhai MBBS, Donald Trump also made his entry at 74 as the president of USA. In the spiritual path the journey of the person I liked a lot that is Shirla Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON who went to America at 72 to spread Geeta’s message to the west according to his guru’s order. Now present time ISKCON has more than three hundred temples all over the world for him age just was the number and that’s inspired many people.
The one question always comes in my mind and now bothering me a lot that about growing age..yes I’m grown up adult now but with that responsibility is on the head. But again that’s up to us that how do we handle it? I’ve seen recently the video of a spiritual guru and he says that, if we want to be successful then concentration is the only key. In some way it’s real I think we can’t concentrate at one thing minimum five minutes. So according to him if we want to live happy in our old age then hardwork and concentration must be needed.
If we think about an old age then most of the things depend on us. What we planted in our youth and later what kind of fruit we will get in our old age. I think we just have to experience the life with its creative beauty. In the childhood there is an immaturity and observing a lot of new things to learn, in adulthood we are experiencing and maturity coming with lots of ups and downs so basically old age there for the rest but we can see many examples who try to break the previous norms and established new ones. Amitabh Bachchan, Dr. Kalam, some other scientists and not the least our happy go lucky sixty to eighty years old politicians who never stop their habbit to grab the chair or position. I think age is just a number but the old age looks beautiful when we try hard to make it beautiful. So very few are fortunate to be old.
Life goes on 