It IS never too late to fulfil your dreams.
A California couple made news last March for marrying after dating exclusively for 30 years. It might be strange in California to date exclusively for such long periods, but that is not why their union made the news. What was newsworthy was the the groom is 100 and the bride a fair 90.
It's an interesting story really. The couple met at a senior centre dance in the 1980s and “danced the night away and became an exclusive couple almost immediately.”
Both the bride and groom were married before and lost their respective spouses to death. The bride confessed that she had no intention of re-marrying, and her mind had not changed when she received the proposal.
Sweet woman that she was, she let him down lightly promising to marry him on his 100th birthday. Who'd have thought?
She remembered her promise as his 100th birthday approached. The site director of the Age Well Senior Centre in Dana Point, California spent almost an entire year organising the mid-March nuptials.
She even took his name.
We all have unfulfilled dreams in our lives. Stories such as the one above should remind us that if some of our dreams are truly worth having, there probably is no real barrier to achieving them other than our own commitment to it.
Whether it's learning to play a musical instrument, getting on with a gym routine or even writing a book – if it's really that important to us we WILL have to find a way.
Personally I've had many 'could have' 'should have' moments that I look back at now and ponder how those lost opportunities could have altered my life. Honestly not all the lost opportunities might have made my life any better; granted it might have been very different but how can one assume it would be better – when 'better' is a relative concept.
Life is not worth living with regrets and pondering on 'could have's and 'should have's. We must either make a consolidated effort to do something towards attaining a dream, or resign that some dreams are simply not worth regrets over.
A Talatism would be that dreams are only depressants unless you work to meet them – so meet them so simply bid them farewell. Final equation is letting go – either of inhibitions or of regrets.
After all life is all too short to nurture regrets that we'll do nothing to address.
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A California couple made news last March for marrying after dating exclusively for 30 years. It might be strange in California to date exclusively for such long periods, but that is not why their union made the news. What was newsworthy was the the groom is 100 and the bride a fair 90.
It's an interesting story really. The couple met at a senior centre dance in the 1980s and “danced the night away and became an exclusive couple almost immediately.”
Sweet woman that she was, she let him down lightly promising to marry him on his 100th birthday. Who'd have thought?
She remembered her promise as his 100th birthday approached. The site director of the Age Well Senior Centre in Dana Point, California spent almost an entire year organising the mid-March nuptials.
She even took his name.
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We all have unfulfilled dreams in our lives. Stories such as the one above should remind us that if some of our dreams are truly worth having, there probably is no real barrier to achieving them other than our own commitment to it.
Whether it's learning to play a musical instrument, getting on with a gym routine or even writing a book – if it's really that important to us we WILL have to find a way.
Personally I've had many 'could have' 'should have' moments that I look back at now and ponder how those lost opportunities could have altered my life. Honestly not all the lost opportunities might have made my life any better; granted it might have been very different but how can one assume it would be better – when 'better' is a relative concept.
Life is not worth living with regrets and pondering on 'could have's and 'should have's. We must either make a consolidated effort to do something towards attaining a dream, or resign that some dreams are simply not worth regrets over.
A Talatism would be that dreams are only depressants unless you work to meet them – so meet them so simply bid them farewell. Final equation is letting go – either of inhibitions or of regrets.
After all life is all too short to nurture regrets that we'll do nothing to address.
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