Young at Heart

Happy New Year Everyone!

It may be late but still, I think I ought to greet each of you a very wonderful new year.  However, a few days ago, I mentioned in Facebook that we are too excited about new years and the new things it could bring us that sometimes we neglect the changes a new day brings.  So each day, why don't we greet ourselves a "happy new day?"

Normally, at every turn of the year, people started thinking about their age increasing.  Like me, every new years eve, I would always say, "It's year ___ now and I will be ____ years old by next month.  I have grown older by a year."

But the thing is, it is not always the number of years that adds to our lives that matter but the number of lives we've touched all those years.  

My New Year's wish for each of us, "may we find meaning in those years we've lived."

***

Earlier as I was preparing for dinner,  I played my Michael Buble album and for the first time, my attention was caught by the song "Young at Heart."  I believe that this song was an original by Frank Sinatra.  For those who happened not to know the song, here's the lyrics that I've got from the internet:

"Fairy tales can come true

It can happen to you if you're young at heart 

For it's hard, you will find

To be narrow of mind if you're young at heart 

You can go to extremes with impossible schemes

You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams

And life gets more exciting with each passing day

And love is either in your heart or on the way

Don't you know that it's worth

Every treasure on earth to be young at heart

For as rich as you are

It's much better by far to be young at heart 

And if you should survive to a hundred and five

Look at all you'll derive out of bein' alive

And here is the best part, you have a head start

If you are among the very young at heart

And if you should survive to a hundred and five

Look at all you'll derive out of bein' alive

And here is the best part, you have a head start

If you are among the very young at heart" 

The very lines that made me stop with what I was doing are the lines that say,

Don't you know that it's worth

Every treasure on earth to be young at heart

For as rich as you are

It's much better by far to be young at heart

So my friends, instead of worrying about your age this new year, think that those are just numbers.  Material treasures matter, but it is much better by far to be young at heart.  So Dear Friends, feel young, feel the energy, feel good.  Live the Good Life.  

Take time to listen to good songs like this one and may you also find inspiration as you continue living the good life.

Happy New Day!