IT’S ONLY A NUMBER: Age, we can’t stop it. Everyday we grow older. Every year tacks on another chapter of life. Consider the ways in which life has been imagined for yourself — and, if you need to, reevaluate the perspective or lens you have been using to view it.
One of our favorite childhood storytellers continued to view life through a lens of childhood-like happiness throughout her years. She is the subject of today’s RTS.
Today is the birthday of world renowned writer, Helen Beatrix Potter. If alive today, she would be 156 years old. For some, thanks to her many books, she will live on forever. In her later years, she still had a way of reflecting on the life she lived and the positivity still remaining:
“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”
Potter had a playful soul. “I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”
Use her imagination and wonder to take yourself back to childhood, to a place of happiness and mystery. Lighten your spirit, and the stress of aging will dissipate.
Be it today that a new you emerges, “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
