AGE BEAUTIFULLY

Nine years after marriage....one day i was waiting with my young wife.......for our turn to get in to the ...telephone booth.....there was a young lady......of 20 ..may be busy on the phone ...for a uncomforting length of time .....it was an almost agonising wait .....me and my better half exchanging glances....after few more patient minutes she breezed out of the booth....looking at me....in to the eyes she asked coolly " uncle what is the time" and gave questioning look to my wife....................my wife couldn't help laughing ...she was all giggling .....like a school girl..it was first time some one called me an uncle.....

That night i had a deep look at my self......in the mirror.....what was i ....eyes looked tired a bit....but i seemed to be same....me ..an uncle...hmm the gal must have been wanting to tease me or did she catch my wide eyed glance as she was busy on phone i don't know.....

A decade later i am too pained to see the distinct toll time had taken on me.....addition of spects for sure made me age more.....the wrinkles under the eyes are far more pronounced........ the little tyre around the belly doesn't seem to go ... no matter what i do.......as i look at myself as i walk past long mirrors in shopping malls....how i wish i was born 10 years late........
All good things of life ..seemed to have sprouted up ..much later in life........... where were all these....in my time i would wonder....fast bikes...gals in low waist jeans....fast chat rooms on net......malls.....and pubs...........one could only wish ...life was a cycle one could put back by a few revolutions.......
Now i know there is no fooling around.....AGE HAS CAUGHT UP WITH ME.......my son is almost four inches taller than me....my niece who was a baby when i was a honey mooner is a woman of substance now....what was once a thick black hair is now peeper and salt...my pretty wife still puzzles me though.... she doesn't seem to AGE AT ALL.......
Perhaps time has come for me to reconcile...that life will not be the same again.....may be i must take a leaf..out of her book and learn to age beautifully............

The secret of aging beautifully i realise is not to look at bygone years and worry about the fading skin and folding wrinkles.....but think of the golden moments of the past.....and live beautifully in the present in the correct perspective.....accept things o f life ....without too much strife....to surrender beautifully....to nature....from a young man..to an aging father ..to realise we have different roles now.....it will always be that ..the teasing mind would once in a while lure you in to unreal ...thoughts......desires and lust....just enough to mock at you......in a cynical way to remind you that u are aging......the art of living ....is to age beautifully.....with a beautiful mind............