TIME IS CLAY. MAKE SOMETHING.

HOW OLD WOULD YOU BE

IF

YOU DIDN'T KNOW HOW OLD YOU ARE?

"...Now how old are you?  Who the hell knows?  You're probably every age you ever were, and there's no end in sight.  Everything you do has its source in one of your warehoused ages.  Whenever you're creating, you're a very young child.  When you notice patterns repeating themselves and come to understand their meanings, you've lived at least thirty-five or forty years.  When you forgive yourself and others more easily, understanding how hard it is to be perfect, you're probably over fifty.

Nobody every "grows up."  All your ages are still inside you.  The difference ages we pass through don't drop off like a snake's skin.  We just add layers.  You're everybody you've ever been.  The more years you've lived through, the more sights, sounds, smells, events, decisions, viewpoints, and feelings you carry around inside you.  It's as if you visited a lot of countries or read a lot of books.  Your inner theater holds a very large cast of characters, each one stepping out on the stage to say her piece whenever it seems like the right time."

SO, HOW DO YOU HANDLE THE ISSUE OF AGE?

"My advice is, forget it.  When it comes to others or to yourself, pay attention to experience, intelligence, imagination, talent, energy, decency, kindness - the things that really matter in any human being - and ignore age entirely.  It's irrelevant, and anyway, it's incomprehensible.  Worst of all, it leads to costly errors you don't want to make, the kind of errors I hope these four rules will help to prevent:

Rule Number One: 

Don't decide you're too old to do something before you really are.

Rule Number Two: 

Time is clay.  Make something.

Rule Number Three: 

If you've got a big dream, go for it. 
But never believe it's your last.

Rule Number Four: 

Watch out for premature regrets.

"...If you find yourself wondering where the years went and questioning whether you put your life to good use or not, understand that it's a good question, but you've asked it at the wrong time.  What have you done with your life?  My answer is, Who can say?  There's a good chance it hasn't started yet."

THANK YOU BARBARA SHER

From her book: 

it's only too late If You Don't Start Now How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age