Age says, now be serious! But…

Ageing is a natural process. Everyone has to undergo this phase of life at his or her own time and pace. In the broader sense, ageing reflects all the changes taking place throughout life. These changes start from birth—one grows, develops, and attains maturity. To the young, ageing is exciting.

After my retirement in 2008, I continued with my writing passion in my domain and also started associating with online news portals and continuing from day one since 2011 with babushahi.com operational under the banner of Tirshi Nazar Media – TNM.   During the recent lockdown, I could get my book – Frankly Speaking-feeling Sometimes Is Not a Reality – released online and shared with friends and relatives, known friends, and some unknown persons through the network and got a good response – informative, messageable, educative and unstoppable reading book.

There was a sudden break in my routine on March 3, when I slipped in the washroom and within a fraction of a second, got fractured near my right eyebrow with a few stitches.  The good part is that all other bodies were fine in CT Scans with best wishes from all.

Since I was off from the writing and reporting part but did not inform the Editor, or news portal when the alerts were stopped in the evening, I started getting queries.

One of my close friends of mine text me a message – Take care and always try to do things slowly.  Naturally, after such an incident, one is conscious in day to day routine.

While I was just thinking to respond to this about the changed lifestyle now, I just went through a couplet in Hindi – उम्र कहती है अब संजीदा हुआ जाये! – मन कहता है, उम्र खत्म हो रही है, नादानियां कुछ और कर लें !  – Age says, now be serious! The mind says age is ending, fools should do something else!

Frankly speaking, I just thought of sharing with you in a lighter mood now after back to my World of Words – online work, – ageing is not lost youth but maturing and knowledge. Perhaps the time had come of drooping of hair on the eyebrow because of aging so a groomed eyebrow on me opens the eye and makes me look younger.