Four Seasons and Age
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
There are always times in life when you wonder or feel as if you're stuck in Winter or enjoying Spring, have the energy and light of Summer or feeling the Autumn within. Inevitably, there are various stages in life when we feel everything from the innocence of youth to the weight and burden of responsibility and everything in between. It no longer matters your age, we can feel those deep ranges of emotions at any age, over a short period of time, or over the years of life.
At this point in my life I find myself relying on uplifting and inspiring quotes, positive messages or self help books to renew and build my self confidence as I find myself not minding my years, but how others may view them. Of course, I can re-read Mark Twain's quote to remind myself it's only a state of mind.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain
But it does little when you are filled with self-doubt.
This is a time in ones life when one should be stong and confident, full of wisdom and experience, still open and learning, but filling renewed everyday. Not questioning, running the gamut on emotions in a matter of hours, doubting yourself and wondering how you got to this place in life and how and if you will ever move forward, not stuck in a stale mate. And I'm not alone.
I have this amazing friend, who is attractive, intelligent, warm, compassionate, fun, and creative and yet she, like many of us (especially during difficult times in our lives) struggles with the self-confidence that one would not expect from someone who has so much to offer the world. Of course, I know the reasons why, it just begs the question.
I know that she would say the same about me, which is why I feel as if I can write about it and who knows it may even help me overcome my own demons with courage and self doubt and keep darkness and despair from knocking on the door, begging for me to let them in.
We are both over 40 and have become single mothers after many years of marriage. Both of us wondering how in the hell we will ever find someone wanting to date a woman over 40, a mother with children at home. Regardless if we are attractive, intelligent ladies, with jobs that prove we know how to hold our own.
We, like everyone else, have good days and bad days and through friends, hobbies or ice cream find a way to hang on an dfind the inner strength to move on.
It's my hope that we can try to remember that each one of us is unique and have many talents and gifts to share and we move through the seasons of life, through hope, faith, courage and love, our lives are renewed and it only gets better with age.
There are always times in life when you wonder or feel as if you're stuck in Winter or enjoying Spring, have the energy and light of Summer or feeling the Autumn within. Inevitably, there are various stages in life when we feel everything from the innocence of youth to the weight and burden of responsibility and everything in between. It no longer matters your age, we can feel those deep ranges of emotions at any age, over a short period of time, or over the years of life.
At this point in my life I find myself relying on uplifting and inspiring quotes, positive messages or self help books to renew and build my self confidence as I find myself not minding my years, but how others may view them. Of course, I can re-read Mark Twain's quote to remind myself it's only a state of mind.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain
But it does little when you are filled with self-doubt.
This is a time in ones life when one should be stong and confident, full of wisdom and experience, still open and learning, but filling renewed everyday. Not questioning, running the gamut on emotions in a matter of hours, doubting yourself and wondering how you got to this place in life and how and if you will ever move forward, not stuck in a stale mate. And I'm not alone.
I have this amazing friend, who is attractive, intelligent, warm, compassionate, fun, and creative and yet she, like many of us (especially during difficult times in our lives) struggles with the self-confidence that one would not expect from someone who has so much to offer the world. Of course, I know the reasons why, it just begs the question.
I know that she would say the same about me, which is why I feel as if I can write about it and who knows it may even help me overcome my own demons with courage and self doubt and keep darkness and despair from knocking on the door, begging for me to let them in.
We are both over 40 and have become single mothers after many years of marriage. Both of us wondering how in the hell we will ever find someone wanting to date a woman over 40, a mother with children at home. Regardless if we are attractive, intelligent ladies, with jobs that prove we know how to hold our own.
We, like everyone else, have good days and bad days and through friends, hobbies or ice cream find a way to hang on an dfind the inner strength to move on.
It's my hope that we can try to remember that each one of us is unique and have many talents and gifts to share and we move through the seasons of life, through hope, faith, courage and love, our lives are renewed and it only gets better with age.
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