As most of my friends know, I recently attended my annual
week-long tai chi workshop. It's a great experience and I highly recommend it
for everyone. One of the interesting things about this type of workshop is the
great diversity of the people attending. They come from many different places
and many different backgrounds. They are young and old. Many people in their
70s are learning and practicing their tai chi. One classmate had just turned
80.
I had an interesting discussion with an acquaintance over
lunch one day. She was closer to the end of her life than the beginning. OK, that's
just a euphemism meaning that she was pretty old. I don't remember her exact
words, but she made a comment that she didn't think she had that many more
years to continue learning her tai chi.
I thought about that for a second before I responded. I told
her, "I don't think I would say it that way. I would say that you have as
long as everyone else. You have the rest of your life." She smiled and
thanked me.
Yes, we have to plan for the future. We are all mortal, in
spite of occasional wishes to the contrary. But we all have the same amount of
time remaining in our lives: the rest of it. We all have the rest of our lives
to follow the path that we want to walk. I don't know what could be more
exciting than that.
© 2013 Eric Borreson
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