Aging? No complaints. No notes.

Well, some notes. See below.

#Spiritual Pillar notes….

Found my new favourite quote this morning:

“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been” - David Bowie

Over the years, I’ve had this feeling of gradually becoming the person I always knew I was. Every year, the feeling gets stronger.

I’ve always felt like an "old soul”… wise beyond my years (if I do say so myself!) and “trapped” in a young body. Which is perhaps what the saying really means for me - my older years were always going to be my best ones. And I’m so not mad about it.

In the same breath, aging also feels like I am going back to “young soul” Alex - the Alex before anxiety took over, perhaps? Or simply the Alex before life happened, innit?! The Alex before all of the noise.

In the worst of moments, I’d always find myself saying “but this is not who I am; why am I acting like this?!”. Even if I could take my darkest moments back, I wouldn’t. Not one. With every year comes lessons, learnings, adversity… all of which have no doubt made me a better person. It may not feel like a bettering of self in the moment (often far from it), but hindsight is a marvelous thing.

As the years go by, I feel this return to myself; this return to my inner child; this discovering of my old soul. Old meets new; new meets old.

Simply aging gracefully (plus some),

Salty