It's Your LIfe

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined..."

Thoreau, Henry David

My mother was in her 60s, when she began taking piano lessons...my daughter-in-laws father was in his 40s when he started law school...and here I am at 53 starting voice lessons....isn't life great!

It's never too late to try something new

Leonardo Da Vinci said: a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. He went on to say: Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I love the idea that we can continue to grow and develop in every aspect of our life for as long as we live and beyond...what a marvelous opportunity to discover, to interpret, to enlarge our world by exploring ourelves and perhaps finding untapped talents and abilities.

Do we take the time to look around us, to explore new ways of thinking, doing, being... Reading good books, listening to new ideas, finding out what life means to others? Allowing ourselves to change....Or, do we let our lives become so small....that we aren't tuned in to who we really are...or what exits outside our boundaries. Do we lose the quest to become?

I look at this burka-clad woman, in Kabul, Afghanistan, holding her tired child while she shops for food for her family and ask myself....

is there really anything such as an ordinary life???

Each of us is so extrodinary... Perhaps we " look at our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained." (--GOETHE, Maxims and Reflections)...What we can still attain.

Consider this:

At age 53:
Ludwig van Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony despite being so deaf that, at the end of its first performance, he could not hear whether the audience was applauding.
Best-selling American author Sidney Sheldon began writing his first novel.
Inventor Walter Hunt patented the safety pin.
Long-time dissident Vaclav Havel became president of Czechoslovakia.
Jimmy Carter facilitated the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt.
Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole.

Who knows....maybe I'll make Broadway

MKC