Human life can be compared to a rose in the garden. The baby is the button that unfolds, gently.

As it opens, it is hypnotized by the dew in the early morning light, the brightness of the crystal with the touch of the sun, in the early hours of the morning, the heat of the king star in the sunny afternoon.

The more it opens to the world, more discoveries it performs. Brave, the child does not read obstacles on the lines of life.

Everything it tries, experiences, shims and feels. Confident, it extends the arms to whom offers it the lap.

Persevering, insists on attempts, without allowing itself consider defeated by the can that does not open, the toy that does not rotate, the doll that insists not to stand.

No obstacle can stop it: a staircase that seems to have no end, a closed door, the locked gate.

Strangely, as the proportion as it grows, it seems to forget of that shiny side.

In the first school years, it can show itself closed to the news and even have low profitability in school.

Later, already mature, exactly as the button fully open, the blocks are larger. The setbacks are considered insurmountable.

While it grows old gradually, more obstacles arises: My memory is not good. I forget everything. I’m getting old.

It does not cogitate learning something new. Exactly in the period in which, in general, it starts having much more free time.

The retirement arrives, the children get married, the obligations decrease in number. Everything that is thought to have during the years of youth, of maturity, is now available: more time.

However, this time is unusable. And if there is something that really makes a person aging is idleness, to do nothing.

While the rose in the garden loses the exuberance, collapsing and losing its petals, the man also allows himself withers away.

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But everything can be different. It is never too late to learn. Aging has nothing to do with losing memory. Unless the person being a carrier of a disease, which impairs the mental functions, the intellectuals.

Absorb wisdom from books, learn to play an instrument, to exercise in a new language. Everything that you have not had time or opportunity to do so before, here is a wonderful chance.

Oscar Niemeyer, known Brazilian architect, in the age of ninety, said:

I do not see any problem with my age. I was born in 1907. Since early I devoted myself to see the poetry that vibrates in the curves of images, and not only in straight and tenses lines.

I continued with hard work and dedication in search of my growth, and I can say that I am a happy person.

I helped people as much as I could and I learned to contemplate nature, in a way that all these things together, and many other more, bring me the conviction of serenity.

And a known television speaker said, when in his seventy years of age:

I have a project to be carried out before I die.

It should take fourteen years to implement it. In it I will use my voice, which today is more rounded, louder than ever was.

I hope that the good Father does not take me before. I want to finish this project before leaving.

This is blessed elderly. This is not wither, although time has designed its map on the faces of those who smile for life, at each dawn.

Aging with dignity is to always have in mind a life project for the day that has not yet been born.

Spiritist Moment Team.
January 7.2015.