Graceful aging - 知止而后有定
Just completed a short course on graceful aging and somehow was touched by the messages which I had shared with the participants during the course.
While the fundamental of the ability was very much common sense to all of us, that is to lead a discipline lifestyle, taking reasonable diet, maintaining a positive attitude to life and take care of our body through proper exercising.
However, for most of us, going through the struggle of maintaining our personal as well as family livelihood will often ignore such basic fundamental in life and will eventually succumb to the pressure of life and .... may be die young... don't even mention about aging gracefully.
According the Confucius in the book [大学] -“知止而后有定，定而后能静，静而后能安，安而后能虑，虑而后能得" which literary means one's must know when to stop, after which he or she is able to achieve calmness, peacefulness, ability to consider and the ability to achieve what he/she actually want.
Somehow, we just need to tell ourselves to really stop and ponder what we actually want out of life. The recent short break of about 3 months outside the corporate world had given me sometime in accessing what I really want and I have come to a conclusion where its OK to stop and ponder whats next rather than just churn along the passage in life as there are more meaningful things in life to caught with power struggle within a office of few hundred or few thousands people, there are bigger group out there where you can make a different.
As the Confucius saying 四十不惑, I gathered that while I am at the border of this milestone, I really hope that I have come to a understanding of my strength as well as the role I want to play for the next 40 years.... may be :)
While the fundamental of the ability was very much common sense to all of us, that is to lead a discipline lifestyle, taking reasonable diet, maintaining a positive attitude to life and take care of our body through proper exercising.
However, for most of us, going through the struggle of maintaining our personal as well as family livelihood will often ignore such basic fundamental in life and will eventually succumb to the pressure of life and .... may be die young... don't even mention about aging gracefully.
According the Confucius in the book [大学] -“知止而后有定，定而后能静，静而后能安，安而后能虑，虑而后能得" which literary means one's must know when to stop, after which he or she is able to achieve calmness, peacefulness, ability to consider and the ability to achieve what he/she actually want.
Somehow, we just need to tell ourselves to really stop and ponder what we actually want out of life. The recent short break of about 3 months outside the corporate world had given me sometime in accessing what I really want and I have come to a conclusion where its OK to stop and ponder whats next rather than just churn along the passage in life as there are more meaningful things in life to caught with power struggle within a office of few hundred or few thousands people, there are bigger group out there where you can make a different.
As the Confucius saying 四十不惑, I gathered that while I am at the border of this milestone, I really hope that I have come to a understanding of my strength as well as the role I want to play for the next 40 years.... may be :)
posted by 黄欣杰 - Clement Ng | 12:04 pm
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