It's the end of the year in a blink of an eye, and it's caused another wave of age anxiety.
The friends of the post-80s generation around me have entered the threshold of 40 years old one after another. If you can live to be 80 years old, you will be halfway through your life.
So how do you live the second half of your life?
The answer is to love yourself well, so that you can not come to this world in vain.
Accept yourself and no longer judge yourself by the standards of outsiders.
Before the age of 40, we always live in the judgment of others. I want to be a good child in the eyes of my parents and a good student in the eyes of my teachers......
But we only forget that we are the only existence in this world.
Crossing the threshold of 40 years old, I finally woke up: no one is perfect, and imperfection is the most real.
If you blindly cater to the demands of others, you will lose yourself.
Zhou Guoping once said:
"I never cared what people said about me because I knew what I was about. ”Accept everything about yourself, including your own shortcomings, love yourself well, and never grieve yourself in order to live as others see you.
Nurture yourself, discover your inner needs, and re-nurture yourself.
When I was a child, because of poverty, my parents were busy making a living, and I could eat enough three meals a day, and going to school was already the maximum limit of their ability.
I grew up hastily like this, and when I had a child, I realized that there were so many beautiful things in the world that I had never experienced. Fun toys, delicious snacks, beautiful scenery ......
After the age of 40, I want to treat myself as a child, raise myself again, and experience all the beauty of this world.
I began to enrich myself and cultivate various hobbies, I began to raise flowers, practice calligraphy, learn piano, and travel regularly.
When people reach middle age, within the scope of their ability, be kind to themselves and make up for the shortcomings they once had.
Improve yourself, break your own limitations, and have infinite possibilities in life.
In the past, people used to say: people don't learn art when they reach forty.
Probably because I feel that when I reach the age of forty, it is not easy to learn the skill again, and it won't take a few years to learn it, and I will be old and useless.
But it's never too late to start learning, because today is always the youngest day for the rest of your life.
The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now.
I used to be a landlubber and was afraid of water, but I was particularly envious of other people's chic swimming style in the pool. This summer, I finally mustered up the courage to learn how to swim. Watching ** study, going into the water to practice, I finally learned breaststroke by myself in a month, and I unlocked a new skill in my life.
Recently, I started to learn the piano again, although now my fingers are not as flexible as a child's, and my reaction time is not as fast. But I can still make progress and maybe next year I'll be playing my favorite tunes.
Never set limits for yourself, there are many late bloomers in history, as long as you insist on improving yourself, there are still infinite possibilities in life after the age of 40.
When we reach middle age, may we all love ourselves well and live the second half of our lives.