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17/09/2024

THE ART OF AGEING GRACEFULLY

Think about it, you have EARNED this face.
Every line, a laugh shared.
Every wrinkle, a year survived.
Every age spot, a day that the sun shone on you.

Some women believe that as they age, they LOSE their looks. Oh my friends how wrong this is.
A beautiful young women is a happy accident of nature but a beautiful older woman?
She is a work of art.

The Japanese have a practice whereby they fill any broken objects with gold, believing that something which is broken has earned its beauty and should be celebrated and decorated rather than discarded.

I feel this way about women.

It took a long time to find out who you really truly are. A long time. The acceptance that old age brings is freeing. It brings with it peace and happiness.
Everyone knows, happiness looks good on us all.

Your body has been changing since the day you were born and will continue till the day you depart. Ride with it, accept it, embrace it. Be amazed by it.
Allow your face to represent your life, your stories, your joys.

Why choose to be an older woman fervently chasing youth, when you could be that older women who knows what she is worth and has earned every minute of her hard-won self-acceptance.

The trick with ageing successfully my friend, is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
✨

Donna Ashworth
From ‘To The Women’

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Beautiful art by Autumn Skye ART

17/09/2024

Once there was a man renting a room. He was a dish washer, struggling with bills.

His landlord would treat him really terribly, insulting him and making him feel like he was worth nothing.

Little did she know that the reason he was struggling to pay rent on time was because his mother was dying of cancer. All the money was going in the medical bills.

Long story made short. Ten years later, they meet up again and this time, she sees him dressed up looking more clean and wealthy.

She approaches him with more respect forgetting that it’s the same person she used to insult and bring down.

He climbed out of poverty, and ended up owning several homes.

Moral of the story: Never look down on anyone in this life unless you’re trying to help them up.

Janitors deserve respect, not because they could become CEOs tomorrow, but because they’re humans.

17/09/2024

A son took his father to a restaurant to enjoy a delicious dinner. His father was quite old and a little weak.

While eating, food occasionally fell on his shirt and pants, and some food was also left around his mouth.

The other guests looked at the old man with strange looks, but his son remained calm.

After they both finished eating, the son quietly helped his father and took him to the toilet. He wiped food scraps from his face and tried to wash food stains off his clothes; he combed his hair and put on his glasses again.

When he left the restroom, there was a deep silence in the restaurant.

The son was about to pay the bill when another old man stood up and asked the son, 'Don't you think you left something here? ' The young man replied, 'No, I didn't leave anything.'

Then the stranger said to him, 'You have left a lesson here for every son and a hope for every father! "

The whole restaurant was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

(borrowed from Earth 2.0 Genesis on Telegram)

23/08/2022

22/08/2022

Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humour though, will only get better.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
And your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritize your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore,
that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritize the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better.

— Donna Ashworth

photo credit:
Elen Jordano
by Phillipe Vogelenzang