Active Adult Living

Active Adult Living


It's time to STOP going through the motions of living, and START living.

Are you willing to do that now? Or are you going to wait until all life energy drains out of you and your loved ones who are trying to support you at this very moment? You were not born to follow rules and regulations. Living starts with dreaming. So dream, dream friend, and let dreams show you the path to your bliss.

I read the above just this morning as I open my e-mail. It kinda struck me. Did it not struck you?

Eureka! Have my savings in a bank account, have a happy family, a modest house, a car in running condition . . . yup they're included in my dreams. Previous to those were: to finish College, land a job immediately after graduation then move to the top of the Corporate ladder while still young. O wow, my dreams did come true.

However, after working really really hard in the Corporate world or maybe just because my dreams have become a reality, I stopped dreaming . . . dreaming big. Mine has been cut down to specific goals and actionables which I "have to" achieve.

But big dreams are different from the "have-to" goals. Dreams are "want-to" desires of the heart. As the fairy-tale song goes . . . "a dream is a wish your heart makes." Bo Sanchez is right when he said we have to have dreams (unrealistic dreams) that makes you wake up excitedly each day.

I never realized that I have forgotten to dream and wish for the dream to come true. So, I mustered courage to write down my unrealistic dreams that hopefully will lead me to live an exciting life (God-willing, of course.)

Hope you have your own list and let's go and make our dreams come true.



A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep.
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for you keep.
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving,
If you keep on believing,
The dream that you wish will come true.

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're feeling small.
Alone in the night you whisper
Thinking no one can hear you at all.
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you.
Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow,
for all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true.

A new fresh beginning,
promises of new joys,
miracles big and small . . .
God's wish for us all.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR THOSE OVER FORTY YEARS OLD 1. Focus on enjoying people, not on indulging in or accumulating material things. 2. Plan to spend whatever you have saved. You deserve to enjoy it and the few healthy years you have left. Travel if you can afford it. Don't leave anything for your children or loved ones to quarrel about. By leaving anything, you may even cause more trouble when you are gone. 3. Live in the here and now, not in the yesterdays and tomorrows. It is only today that you can handle. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not even happen. 4. Enjoy your grandchildren (if you are blessed with any) but don't be their full time baby sitter. You have no moral obligation to take care of them. Don't have any guilt about refusing to baby sit anyone's kids, including your own grandkids. Your parental obligation is to your children After you have raised them into responsible adults, your duties of child-rearing and babysitting are finished. Let your children raise their own offspring. 5. Accept physical weakness, sickness and other physical pains. It is a part of the aging process. Enjoy whatever your health can allow 6. Enjoy what you are and what you have right now. Stop working hard for what you do not have. If you do not have them, it's probably too late. 7. Just enjoy your life with your spouse, children, grandchildren and friends. People, who truly love you, love you for yourself, not for what you have. Anyone who loves you for what you have will just give you misery. 8. Forgive and accept forgiveness. Forgive yourself and others.. Enjoy peace of mind and peace of soul. 9. Befriend death. It's a natural part of the life cycle. Don't be afraid of it. Death is the beginning of a new and better life. So, prepare yourself not for death but for a new life with the Almighty. 10. Be at peace with your Creator.. For... He is all you have after you leave this life.