What is the secret to never grow old?

In the desire of eternal youth there are not few of those who use to the most varied resources.

The clinical treatments, surgeries, interventions of the most varied, with a single goal: trying to fool the time.

It, however, inexorable, seems to insist on not to deceive.

Soon, its weight is done on the shoulders of everybody, leaving indelible marks.

However, is it really possible to keep yourself always young?

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Anyone who saw that lady, friendly face, easy conversation, well-arranged white hair, could not imagine the challenges that life had offered her.

Daughter of immigrants, she grew up in the Ukrainians community who arrived to the country, along with her parents.

She learned the Portuguese language after she was eight years old, which left marks on her speaking, full of accents, as a foreigner that she was.

She got married young, with other immigrant, maintaining ties with the community and the roots, which always prided her.

With the children, and they had five in total, came great challenges.

Soon, she realized her husband had gambling issues.

His imbalance has reached the point of her having to leave in the dark, at dawn, running away from creditors, carrying only the children, the clothes, no whereabouts.

This was followed by the addiction of alcoholism, making her husband, often, oblivious to the responsibilities and difficulties of home.

In most part of these moments, she was alone, to maintain the family.

Not rare, the days dawned and she did not have what to put in the pot to feed her children at lunchtime.

She often deprived herself to eat, so that they could be better fed.

However, she never lost her faith, her joy of life, her optimism.

Never, throughout her entire existence, complaint about what life offered her.

On the contrary, she always had a good piece of advice, healthy reflexion, a story to entertain those who surrounded her.

Widow, with her children raised, others were her goals.

Regularly returned to the immigrant colony that she had left, to take money, food or clothing, which she collected with close people, to distribute.

She made crochet as pleasure and, from the result, she used to give presents, donate, encourage many.

At the age of seventy, she decided to create a radio show about the culture and her ancestors.

It was to bring encouragement to the old immigrants, who had missed so much their homeland, she explained.

And, personally, sought sponsorship, along with those who she knew, to finance her dream.

For more than ten years, until her disembodiment, she took her friendly and sweet word, to everyone that heard her in her Sunday program.

And so she deceived time.

Thus she died young, being more than eighty years old.

She left the lesson that, if the body aging is inevitable, the aging of soul and mind is an option to each one of us.

Everyone who carries dreams, noble ideals, goals to be achieved, no matter how old, will always be young, deceiving the time wisely.

Spiritist Moment Team.
November 5.2015.