I’ve been thinking a lot about ”getting older” and being an adult and the values and ideas we put into the words old and adult. For me most of those features are nothing I want to be or desire. Growing or getting older for me symbolizes some kind of deterioration or loss of vitality and being serious. We live in a society that is quite fixated with age. After all age is just a number. It doesn’t say anything about who you are, your values, experiences or your personality.
I want to grow and develop, but I want to grow younger, be more playful and enjoy life. That doesn’t mean not having a career or not taking responsibility but as for me the more and harder I work –the bigger my need gets to play. Life isn’t just all work and no play.
The cool thing about our amazing bodies is that they are constantly renewed. All the cells in our bodies are being reproduced so over a couple of years we have a brand new fabulous body. So how is it - if our bodies and cells are constantly renewed - that we are growing old?
Time to play ;)
