03 July 2012

IF AGING WERE A BOOK

Our lives are books walking around inside a frail human frame. Our lives are reviewed everyday by those who speak to us directly, and those who keep their thoughts to themselves. So how is it that people who know absolutely nothing about who we are, our backgrounds, our experiences, our aches pains triumphs and trials dare judge us based on "a recommendation from a resume'?" Why do people seem content to sell themselves and their $50,000-in-debt college education to someone who owns a business who never went to college?

Even more intriguing, is how is it that our "human books of living"  can be fully researched when all of us has yet to reach our potential, based on experiences not yet realized, and from lessons yet to be learned and absorbed into our personal and professional development?

Finally, what are the success stories of those who would not recommend "your human book?" Those of us who are #babyboomers have had our books either shelved or ignored with each passing year in a generation that values eye contact with an inanimate device rather than eye contact with someone who has a soul. But experience is a funny thing, because those who are INEXPERIENCED in writing their own book of life end up often discovering that those books of knowledge called "precious elderly resources" being shelved in nursing homes or retirement centers, with each passing year, tend to know more about "been there, done that" when we are in the midst of penning the experiences in our own hearts. (Too bad there is no white-out for memories gone sour.)

What happens during the aging process can only be experienced going through the aging. And sometimes that means wrinkles can be a badge of honor, not something to be "reviewed" as insignificant.


P.S. Since the "go to college get a good job" fantasy is dead for 90 percent of Americans, if one wanted to do "comparison studies" who would have ever guessed that time ever stands still for anything, including someone reviewing "Life Coaching" on a subject that creates more billionaires and multi-millionaires than anyone working for 40 years plus, for 40 hours plus only to HOPE to retire on 40 percent of what they couldn't even live on in the first place?

Read "The New Professionals: The Rise of Network Marketing As the Next Major Profession. Authors: Dr. Charles King and James W. Robinson. Kudos to Dr King who received his business adm degree from Harvard, and kudos to Mr. Robinson who advised as a senior officer for the United States Chamber of Commerce on penning this book. My money is on "the experts."



cynth'ya lewis reed
July 3, 2012

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