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======Age 1 - Part of our Life ...======
Wednesday, May 12, 2010.
Can you imagine a life without aging? Both youth and age is
an integral part of our life. We live with age, in a way that
we do not know how life without age would be.
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**Life is not unlimited**
As humans, we also fear age. Age reminds us that our life is
not unlimited. Life has an end. We are all going to die at some
point in the near or distant future. Age and death is somehow
interlinked. Our body is not designed for eternity. It works
for some years. In fact, it grows in these years and matures.
It changes all the time. It ages. Then, at some point, it
dies.
Our relation to age is ambiguous. We like age, in the sense that
we like experience and knowledge and ability. All this usually
comes with age. We need to learn and when we learn and train
and gain experiences, our ability grows. But at the same time
age means less strength. It means less options, less possibilities.
Age means that the remaining time and the remaining options
decrease. Age is perceived as threat.
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**Designed by God ...**
We have to realize, that age is something, which was designed by
God. He chose to create life like that, not initially, but as
a reaction to human choices.
The biblical story around
aging and death is quite fascinating. It was God's solution to
full freedom, to good and bad, to the fact that mankind was
separated from God. I assume that you know the story about Adam
and Eve eating from the forbidden fruit. The fruit was forbidden,
since it meant to know good and bad, to leave the area which
God had created for them. It is a story about curiosity, but
also about mistrust. And it is a story about going into an
unknown land. A story about unforeseen consequences, about
crime and death. As a part of his reaction to the choices of
Adam and Eve God put a limit to our activities. Death entered
the stage of life.
Over the next days we want to think further about aging and how
we live in it ...
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