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One day, when I went to see the ophthalmologist he told me that I needed glasses due to a condition called presbyopia. Immediately I thought: Aging! Glasses!  I was never very vain, but glasses? ... Although it was true that my vision was becoming blurry.

He said it was nothing serious... just part of the aging process.  It’s nothing serious, but all of the Sutton I realize that time passes by and changes do occur without us noticing.

Since I could not help myself, and I like to see things clearly, I got my glasses. And now I find myself talking to you.
Presbyopia and other signs and symptoms of the aging process, lead me to reflect.

 
The feeling I described earlier has nothing to do with the actual diagnosis. It has to do with "awareness" of where we stand in our lives. A STOP in the course of our lives that says, "you are not 20 years old anymore."

But, is this the starting point of old age?

No. Aging is something that occurs from birth. We start to age from the moment we are born. A simple thing like needing glasses is when we realize. Suddenly that something is happening to us.

Do you remember any similar time in your life like this one? Probably, yes ...

These are the moments when we have to make a decision, like, do I want to see or not see? Do I want to accepted this, or not?

In the worst cases, we feel that life is over for us. We wonder why life put us through these moments. We get depressed. We abandon ourselves.

Some people will not give any importance to the problem. They realize that they are not okay but they deny the problem. This frame of mind does not benefit us in any way. It is what it is.

Or, we decide that our desire to live life is stronger, it is so much more important to continue reading and writing, than to get upset over a pair of glasses or any other limitations that will appear in our lives. (I confess, it took me a long time choosing which scenario I preferred. Denial was not an option.)

When we "realize the problem", we see that we are the only ones who can use this as a point of departure or as a point of arrival.
At times, life will make us wear glasses, make us go slower, take some medications, change our nutrition regime and more. But it is not telling us not to enjoy and live life. Quite the contrary.

Life, many times, makes us face up to problems that are consequences of our past actions and gives us one more chance.

Sometimes, we can no longer do what we used to do. But sometimes, if we keep our desire to still do those things, we will find a way.
Life makes us wear glasses sometimes to continue seeing things CLEARLY.

Life has a way of making us go at a slower pace in other to give us the opportunity to ENJOYED. Many times, we are not able to enjoyed due to the daily ”run around” of daily routines. It is also a way to convey to young people around us, that we have to stop, slow down, enjoy and feel. It is much better to understand at a younger age.

It is not the same to see a lovely sunset sitting on the sand, as it is to see it while running down the beach as it occurs.

Yes, the life makes us stop.

Life tells us “Hey, you have run too much already. Come, sit down, feel, enjoy. "

You just have to WANT to listen.

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