With Age Comes Liberation

There's not a lot of things good about getting older. People tend to gain weight, their hair turns gray (and falls out), skin sags, and on and on. It's not a pretty process.

But the one positive thing you gain with age is the freedom to think, say and do as you darn well please. We spend our childhood obeying our elders and living under their rules and guidelines. As teenagers we sometime stretch those rules and boundaries as we begin to experience life. But we still understand our limitations.

Once we are married and have children of our own we tend to live within certain confines of our vocation and social life so that we fit in and set a good example for others. We want to provide the best role model for our offspring as possible.

But once the kids are raised, educated and on their own and our social and financial situations have become somewhat more secure, we can finally relax. We have earned the freedom to be ourselves and we deserve to exercise the rights afforded by that freedom.

If we really want to, we can stay out all night, drink too much, express our opinions and say what the heck we want because we've earned that privilege. We spend the first 50 - 60 years living on the terms of everyone else so we should at least enjoy the remaining years living on our own terms.

So all you kids under 50 years old, respect the freedom afforded with our age. Hopefully you live long enough to become liberated in life, too.